Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:12:08AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Anders Karlsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > The best scenario would be if X + Desktop Environment picked up on the > > actual DPI of the screen(s) and adjusted for that automatically. > > I disagree. If I hook my laptop up to a data

Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

2004-12-04 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:18:42PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Right now, GNOME users default to 96 DPI, xdm users default to 100 > DPI, and other users are randomly assigned DPIs anywhere in the range of > 75-133. I believe that right now, we should adopt the GNOME standard > everywhere as the

Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

2004-12-04 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:27:50PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > I would like to act on the proposal described in the web page, that > is, get everyone to ship with X starting at a default DPI of 96x96, and > have fontconfig changed to default to this as well. I must respectfully disagree. We rea

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > As we're coming up to a release and thus need to close this issue > quickly, could -legal please comment on this issue for completeness? I > would really like comments from the peanut gallery, the cheap seats, the > people who aren't l