Re: High DPI values and how text and grfx loose scale.
Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com> writes:
> On my system I have small monitors that I drive at high resolutions.
> This makes my DPI about 130. With this DPI it's vary obvious that
> text is bigger, while EVERYTHING else remains small. This has
> created a lot of bugs dealing with fonts being bigger than there
> containers. I also run with dual heads, so I have 2 valid DPI
> settings. Gnome cares not of these things, I think it must.
Sucks, don't it. :-( I think the current best buzzword for this is
SVG (scalable vector graphics). But a lot of the current world seems
to be based around bitmapped graphics, which are designed assuming a
75dpi display. Web pages, which were initially intended to be
completely platform-independent, have gathered a lot of unfortunate
dependencies on a particular pixel size; I bet that, say, MIT's
top-level Web page (http://web.mit.edu/) would look terrible on your
display, especially if you're using a sensible Linux browser.
You might be able to find a window manager that believes in higher
display resolutions. (I think modern openbox does, though it's
stopped believing in non-XINERAMA multi-head displays.) A Web browser
that scaled images and pixel sizes up to your advertised display
resolution from 72dpi would be clever. But otherwise, yeah, a lot of
the world breaks this way.
(...and I've thought for a while that having a 300dpi LCD display
would be very nice, aside from software support sucking in pretty much
exactly this way.)
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