On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:30 AM Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > the thread referred to here might be interesting as well: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2020-October/041637.html > > "Re-thinking DPI and scaling (Re: Physical vs logical DPI on X)" > > TL;DR: pixel resolution ignores the physical screen size but limits how > small details can be rendered, DPI ignores the viewing distance meaning > that you don't actually know if something n millimeters high is legible > or not even at infinite pixel resolution.
One thing I like about the "naive" approach of just specifying "phone" "desktop" "tv" and so on is that the term comes in with the assumption of a default configuration of screen size, input and viewing distance, so a tv would be big screen, big fonts and far away viewing distance, remote control. A desktop: medium size, high dpi, small fonts, keyboard and a pointing device and so on. "Modifiers" would be necessary.. I would expect a 20" tv to show things a bit different than a 50" one, or indeed, a desktop with bigger than normal scaling for accessibility reasons. -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
