On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:57 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:52:57AM +0000, Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:20 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:19:25PM -0600, Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> wrote: > > > > The GNOME system has the nice property that it can be changed without > > > > restarting X. Moving towards systems with this property is a good > > > > thing. GNOME also advertises it in a vendor neutral way (XSETTINGS) and > > > > sets the Xft X resource so that other applications use its DPI value, so > > > > it seems like it is going in the right direction. > > > > > > > > Regardless, my proposal is simply to have Xft always default to 96 > > > > DPI, independent of the DPI value you put in X. > > > > > > Are you telling me you are wanting to force all my Xft applications to > > > use a 96 dpi display while I explicitly configured X to use 112 dpi ? > > > I firmly oppose to that. > > > > No, he said he wanted to make Xft applications default to 96 DPI. > > Nothing stopping you from tweaking the Xft.dpi value to what you want it > > to be. > > Which means I'll have to tweak *2* configurations for *1* DPI. And > fortunately, I don't use several user accounts, otherwise that would be > even more configuration tweaks. Well, yes and no. If you are a normal user, you would not have to tweak anything. If you mess with printing/image manipulating a lot, then you might have to tweak two sets of values, one to tell X what DPI the screen actually is, and one to tell the desktop env what DPI you want the fonts displayed in. What would be nice, is if both values was available to be tweaked, on the fly, in a single config window. I realise full well that what-ever the choice is, some users will feel squeezed because they have to slightly alter how they do things. Perhaps taking the course of action that covers what the most users do is the sanest option here? Rgds -- Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com> Trudheim Technology Limited
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