Re: DPI, font size, and Debian
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:27:50PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote:
> 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.
I must respectfully disagree.
We really should get around to becoming "modern" and do
resolution-independent widgets. And so a fixed DPI will undermine this
attempt.
Having the DPI value actually reflect the number of dots per inch, and
scaling our widgets with it will let us have well-rendered _smooth_
fonts instead of the blurry ones we have now.
Who wants to have itty-bitty fonts and icons when we get monitors that
can display 3200x2400? Let's find reasonable sizes for widgets and then
make them scale with the capabilities of high-resolution displays.
Simon
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