Thibault - sort of. The main reason that the image quality is worse is that LCD panels just dont look much good at anything other than their native resolution, even on Windows or OS X. The difference in DPI is probably only one of the intermediate factors involved.
The good news is that Unity 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" will have support for HiDPI displays. Additionally, Ubuntu developers are planning HiDPI support for the Ubuntu Linux boot experience - when dealing with GRUB2's boot-loader menu and the Plymouth boot splash screen. They are also investigating HiDPI support for Linux virtual consoles. Specifically, "Developers at this week's vUDS session will be working on a 2x version of the GRUB2 font for basic HiDPI support by just appearing twice as big, working on GRUB2 support for returning a display's physical dimensions, work out support for a scaling factor within Ubuntu's Plymouth theme, and support for a scaling factor within the console-setup font configuration." There is also bug #1292218 which is described as "The lockscreen has correct Panel HiDPI support, but the prompt doesn't scale right now." Some of this additional work might be ready for Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" but it is unlikely that all of the HiDPI improvements will be ready for that release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564072 Title: DPI is not recognized by UBUNTU, so fonts, icons and the whole system is too small Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, I'm using a 147x145 DPI screen. The fonts, icons and all the whole system seem too tinny. If I change the System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details...>Resolution from 96 to 145, the fonts of the desktop get better, but the icons still too tinny, and the fonts in any other applications is still tinny. I know that i can change the resolution of the screen to a smaller one (actual is 1920x1200) but i don't want to do that because it downgrade the quality of the display. in Firefox, i can use Ctrl + to increase the fonts size, but this leads sometime to bigger fonts in small frames so sometimes i can't see all the fonts in a frame, or the frames can interfere with each others, and the enlarged photos are really bad quality. My question is : Is there a real way to make all the fonts, icons, photos and the whole system in all the applications to appear in a normal size instead of this tinny size that i get only because i have a 1920x1200 on a 15" screen ? in termianl : ~:/var/log$ grep DPI Xorg.0.log (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (147, 145); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config ~$ xdpyinfo | grep reso resolution: 147x145 dots per inch And this is the right DPI of my screen 1920x1200 pixels (332x210 millimeters), but i don't know why the operating system is not applying these DPI? My config : Clevo M860TU with Quadro FX 2700M UBUNTU 9.10 ( but this problem was also in earlier releases ) Driver : NVIDIA 185 ( but i tried also 173 ) Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/564072/+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
