DPI, font size, and Debian

[Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>]

  A common problem I have in supporting my software under Linux is font
size.  Depending on how the user starts X, or which desktop environment
they use, the size of their fonts will change.  I would like to fix this
problem, and so I have posted a document describing what's going on, and
what I would like Debian to do.

    http://scanline.ca/dpi/

  Right now in debian, if you use xdm, it runs "X -dpi 100" and you get
100x100 DPI.  If you run using gdm, kdm, or startx, you get the default
X server calculated DPI (which is often wrong).  If you use GNOME, it
runs gnome-settings-daemon, and everyone uses 96x96 DPI.

  I would like to act on the proposal described in the web page, that
is, get everyone to ship with X starting at a default DPI of 96x96, and
have fontconfig changed to default to this as well.

  Thoughts?

  -Billy