On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The only time Wine should have to worry about DPI is when running > >> apps that haven't been designed with high DPI in mind and therefore > >> don't scale well (for instance when font sizes are set in points and > >> other GUI elements are sized or positioned using pixels). But for > >> those apps it might be good enough to provide a simple checkbox that > >> says "override DPI to 96" or some other sensible default value. I > >> don't know if there actually are such apps. > > > > Such apps would break in Windows as well, Win32 uses logical units > > for its GUI elements, not pixels. > > Ah, that's good to know. Then why not get rid of that slider all > together? DPI settings are not a Wine issue and should not be solved > by Wine.
Because DPI settings are kind of broken all over. We need a way to override things for Wine for the moment until e.g. X can autodetect monitor DPI reliably. But we should see if paying attention to Xft.dpi (itself a similar override that should go away) improves user experience. - Dan
