(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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485 Title: Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The X server, starting with 1.7, ignores the physical size reported by the EDID or in xorg.conf and calculates it based on screen resolution and a DPI of 96. This is rather annoying for users of high DPI screens. GNOME and KDE (used?) to set 96 DPI by default in their settings. We should check whether they still do, and if so let them handle this; I don't think X should be handling this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/589485/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
