On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Robert Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is work going on to make toolkits resolution independent. > Microsoft is already there with Windows Presentation Foundation and Qt > is part the way there with QGraphicsView. KDE meanwhile is using > vector graphics as the basis for icons, backgrounds and other artwork > these days so we're ready when the time comes. I'm not sure what the > situation is with the Mac.
I don't think we should wait for the time to come :-) Can't wait for the day taking a screenshot yields an svg ;-) Cheers, g > > I'm sure the Trolls have discussed this in much more detail internally > - who knows. > > Regards, > Robert. > > 2008/10/13 Guillaume Pothier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Orcan Ogetbil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I think the DE should have a function that adjusts the sizes of everything >>> according to the resolution. Or at least an option that will honor such a >>> function. A good way of implementing this idea to font sizes is to have an >>> option to display the Font sizes in metric units rather than pixels in >>> KDE's Font Settings dialog. Or -if it has to be kept the same way- we >>> should simply call it something other than "resolution". >> >> Actually, I think users should not even have to deal with resolution >> anymore as nowadays most monitors are LCDs and have a native >> resolution that shouldn't have to be changed. What you want to change >> is the zoom factor. >> In several DEs, this can be achieved by adjusting the DPI settings (I >> don't know if it works in KDE4). There are two issues with that: first >> the setting is not usually easy to find, and second (but not very >> important), DPI are not, in my opinion, a good measure, because in the >> end the size at which a font is readable depends both on the number of >> pixels and on the distance you are from the monitor. Should be DPA: >> Dot Per Arcminute ;-) >> What would be great would be to be able to adjust the "zoom factor" >> easily, like with a slider and the effect are visible in realtime. >> Bonus points for being able to do that for individual windows, or per >> monitor: in my case I have a quite high-DPI monitor (1920x1200, 15.4") >> which is usually further away from my eyes than my lower-DPI 22", >> 1680x1050 monitor. Thus everything on that first monitor looks >> minuscule. >> >> g >> >>> >>> There are monitors out there with resolutions as high as 2560x1600 and I am >>> sure these numbers will keep growing. Fonts of size 9, for example, are >>> totally illegible on a 24'' monitor with such a resolution. >>> >>> Have a great day! >>> -oget >>> >>> PS: You may have noticed that the title was inspired by the other thread. >>> All credits go to the original author :) >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Plasma-devel mailing list >>> Plasma-devel@kde.org >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Plasma-devel mailing list >> Plasma-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
