Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > quite weird, i thought web pages were mostly pixel-based. > > mostly != all. Did you ever wrote HTML?
yep, and it displays nicely with links ;p > You can give fontsize in pixels, points and cm. argh! nasty (IMO) Since people use a lot of images, this must go together with image scaling, which implies bad results [...] > Did you ever install or use The GIMP? You can give image and canvas sizes in > pixels, points, inches, millimeters and a lot more. Sometimes, people happen > to want to make a 10x20 cm image and display it true size. When installing > GIMP for the first time it even ask you to measure a bar on the screen BY HAND > (this is terribly user-unfriendly, imagine Photoshop doing this), because > setting acquired from the X server are 'unreliable', which is not very strange > since nobody cares to set DisplaySize. ok, I understand why gimp would use it. [...] > Even if no programs would use it (and we just established that some very > common programs do), it would still be a good thing to set this because > software interacting with a user should be able "know" what the user is seeing > on the screen. This is because it facilitates IMHO good user-friendly software > design. ok, if I accept the idea of having this set correctly, why isn't it set correctly by default? On by box the X server nicely finds out everything based on DDC: % xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 83x84 dots per inch
