On 04/09/2009 11:10 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > > Since when you are doing certain few applications (actual WSIWYG layout, > or the use of the screen as a ruler, which we do on OLPC), you really do > want the actual DPI; it's just we *also* need to know the typical > viewing distance.....
You have a very good point here. I promoted redefining DPI to be magical scale-factor before, but now I understand that that's not the right approach. I'll keep that in mind when working with David on resolution-independence support in GTK+ later this year. behdad > And in the past, we never had the viewing distance in X11's design: our > presumption was then always desktop monitors, viewed at the "usual" > desktop distance). It is entirely missing from the core protocol. > > We've been missing one value from day one, and the one that actually > makes DPI make sense for 98% of applications we use on a day to day > basis.... > - Jim > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
