❦ 9 août 2015 16:28 +0200, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> : > b) it needs to be tweaked in more than one place (e.g. xrdb + Iceweasel > + other places)
Yes, that's unfortunate. If GTK people could explain Iceweasel and Chromium people how they should handle it, it would lessen the amount of manual configuration needed. Using only XSETTINGS (or XSETTINGS + xrdb) would unify the configuration and allow automatic change when switching From one DPI settings to another. I don't know the Iceweasel case, but for Chromium, it seems they are pretty clueless and just add more hacks until people stop complaining. > d) there is some concern that not all displays report DPI accurately and > so it wasn't considered safe to trust the value from the display and so > people started using the hard-coded values in GNOME at some point in the > past - is that still a valid argument today though? The hard coding is done in X at 96 dpi and it is still true today. If you change DPI settings in X (with -dpi), you can check that the display dimensions is adjusted appropriately, making your change useless. XRANDR reports the appropriate values and applications wishing to use it should use that instead. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41115 http://pastebin.com/vtzyBK6e As you said, Nvidia is special here. > Does anybody feel strongly enough that manual DPI configuration > shouldn't be necessary any more, just as it is no longer necessary to > manually create X ModeLines for most monitors? Would this be a > worthwhile goal for stretch? While it is possible to derive the true DPI setting from the resolution and the dimension, I don't think that's what users would be expecting. On a laptop, you'll want smaller fonts than on a desktop because the screen is usually nearer from your eyes. For example, on my laptop, the screen is 310mm x 174mm for 2560 x 1440. Strictly speaking, DPI is 210. However, I am setting it to 144 because at 210, everything is far too big. On my desktop station, I am using 23" monitors (510mm x 290mm). It's 96 DPI and it is just fine. What could be a goal is to only have one universal setting. This setting could be Xft.dpi since most applications work just fine with that. However, this hijacks the original purpose of this setting, but I think most people would like to have a bigger interface if they need bigger fonts. -- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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