On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:43:10 +0000 Alan Swanson <rei...@improbability.net> said:
> The problem is that setting DPI to anything other than 96 breaks many > applications and toolkits, not just font sizing but GUI rendering > breakage. Historical cruft unfortunately but you have to deal with it. > > Even the recent Xorg 21.1.2 release had to revert this type of change; > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=35af1299e73483eaf93d913a960e1d1738bc7de6 > > I've personally patched Enlightenment 0.25 to fix commit > 4b87781bae4a6ea70e5b6f38683e7c2ea0fd2c27 "scaling - remove custon x > application dpi and move to central scaling" by reverting to 96dpi by > default. Also needed to go through Settings-Look-Scaling-Advanced and > then either unset "Set Application DPI" or adjust it to 96 to update > the existing saved setting. > > I personally like Enlightements own fonts to be small whilst > applications are normal. > > (Sorry for breaking mail archive threading, wasn't subscribed until > now.) why patch? you have sliders in scale settings... see my other mail. but wanting e fonts to be inconsistent with apps goes against everything i worked at to make them consistent "out of the box" in settings. you can force them to break if you play with the sliders and settings. you do not need to patch anything. that just break the "consistent out of the box" work and means you have to maintain a patch that will never go upstream when all you need to do is slide a slider around for your needs. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
