Bug#236806: dpi option for kdm configuration

[Luke <clairst@uiuc.edu>]

Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.3.0a-1
Followup-For: Bug #236806

I'm not sure if the original submitter's bug is really a bug - some may say
that leaving it to X's autodetection is a feature instead.  The way I'd like
to see this bug get resolved is for there be an option in the control panel
for kdm or fonts to optionally NOT use X's autodetection, and instead add a
-dpi flag to kdm's Xservers config file - there could be some drop-down menu
of common dpi settings that the user could choose from, and then there could
be some dialog box about changes not taking effect until X is restarted.

It would be nice if users had the ability to choose -dpi without editing the
config file, but I also thing the default behavior of letting X autodetect
is appropriate...

Additionally, i'm not sure what the policy would be if the user uses gdm or
xdm as the display manager - perhaps KDE isn't supposed to edit those files,
but certainly, it seems this could be a useful option for kdm at the very
least.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii  debconf                   1.4.39         Debian configuration management sy
ii  kdebase-bin               4:3.3.0a-1     KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdelibs4                  4:3.3.0-2      KDE core libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0c102               2.7.0-5        client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.2-3      GCC support library
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                  0.5.2-3        GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-22        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-9      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt             3:3.3.3-4.1    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.5-1      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System event recording an
ii  xbase-clients             4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-1      compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
  kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm