https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471443
David Edmundson <k...@davidedmundson.co.uk> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from David Edmundson <k...@davidedmundson.co.uk> ---
Font DPI and scaling are separate concepts. We *do* use Xft.dpi in xrdb.
We still need something for the applications to scale instead of just adjusting
their font.
It was not dubbed a debug environment variable at the time [1].
"This allows applications written for low DPI screens to run unchanged on high
DPI devices. This feature is opt-in, and can be enabled using the following
environment variables"
Unchanged meaning everything will be the right size, but some images mnight be
upscaled internally. This was dubbed better than things being too small.
Retrofitting is always hard, there's no magic solution.
Whilst the situation could have been handled differently if we had done things
differently in the past, the proposals given in #4 will break a tonne of
software and are simply not viable.
Over time Wayland is more explicit and applications will gain Qt scaling
support and this will be moot.
[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html#configuring-x11
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