Guess this is an invite to leave for Wayland or whatever. My current screen is 96 dpi (give or take a pixel) so I could care less but the moment I switch to a display with different resolution I will have to put up with this Xorg's insanity as well.
If Xorg is going to be bug-compatible with Windows, and only Windows default settings, not Windows preinstalled by system integrators on all laptops with hi-res screens we can as well run ReactOS. The user experience will, again, be terrible, much worse than Windows. You should also add some (*((int (*)())0))(); to make it feel more like badly configured Windows. If you are really concerned that DPI alone is not doing the right thing then you should add a mechanism to adjust it per display type, not just flat force everything to some random bogus value. Eg. if you had a statistical study that says that people usually sit at a distance from LVDS which is about 2/3 the distance to TMDS then *leave the detected DPI alone* and add a *magnification factor* of 0.66 which modifies the reported DPI to be 0.66 of the actual DPI. Everyone can easily set to 1 if they want DTP-correct display and tune to a value that suits better their use of the system. This *also* handles displays that have non-square pixels correctly. You need a correct baseline to magnify from to get a magnification factor, not a brain damage factor. You can use the same magnification factor to set the resolution of something you think is a TV to flat 96dpi and still preserve the option to easily revert to the actual reported DPI. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
