(In reply to comment #16) > See http://pastebin.com/vtzyBK6e for #xorg-devel discussion about this. Some comments:
> <ohsix> not a lot of people are bothered, since getting the per display dpi > right is a hard problem, even if you can set it for one single monitor in > particular, 'fixed' is handling some difference in dpi across displays, > which doesn't happen in the toolkits or anything Wrong. *I* am bothered, and *I* operate a few dual-monitor setup including those with different display DPI. That ohsix windows migrant would have a hard time telling me that forcing DPI to a semi-arbitrary value to follow the obsolete windows suit is right (and that it is worth breaking what used to work since last century). > <ohsix> maybe you misunderstood me, i was telling you what's expected to do it By whom? Those who smoked windows crack and a gazillion of tray notifiers? Thanks but no thanks. I've seen enough weird video hardware (e.g. Acer V550 monitors reported those funny EDID values) but those are rather *exceptions* to be handled, and one can even automate that -- if a display has DPI less than e.g. 30 or higher than e.g. 300 (as of today) then it might be treated as a reason to fall back to default (96 is ok here) since those who operate special cases *can* be expected to know their ways around hi-res displays or display walls. > <ohsix> any cobbled together thing where nobody really cares > is going to miss details like that This bastard should not continue to erode free software. *He* doesn't care. Seems that Red Hat has hired too many dumb morons who took their windows habits and attitude there, see also http://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri- devel&date=2012-12-13 /fedora -- and recall the F12 PackageKit saga of Richard Hughes "fame": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047#c9 PS: just in case, I'm using and developing free software since 1998 and have done numerous migrations for people and companies. I know that care *is* crucial. Good luck to Xorg team with preserving that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485 Title: Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/589485/+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
