On 04/09/2009 10:55 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> >>> In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the >>> Xserver which would adopt it and everything would just work. >>> Unfortunately monitors report rather varied things, the dominant OS >>> product appears to ignore the monitor value entirely (so the monitor >>> doesn't get corrected) and everyone forces an OS dependant DPI in their >>> desktop ignoring all the monitor info. >> All we want is a community call to gather HAL .fdi info for all common >> display >> devices... >> > > Again, this isn't sufficient; you also have to know the (typical) > viewing distance of the screen. > > Any such call should be made in such a way we get enough information to > actually be useful.... DPI itself isn't enough... We need two pieces > of information, one of which is a nice simple number, the second of > which is at best an approximation. But without the second, the first > isn't very useful.
Right. We discussed this all in detail a few months ago... Either ask for device-type (handheld, monitor, TV, projector, ...), or simply ask for dimension-divided-by-typical-distance. behdad > - Jim _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
