Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:28:03 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <430CDD76.9060005@ebs.gr> References: <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200508241156.15091.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430C2B7E.7060408@ebs.gr> <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430CDD76.9060005@ebs.gr>
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------------9D1F020627A88D68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005-08-24 at 22:49:58 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Yeah, it seems that GNOME is imitating Windows in this. On Windows XP I > get 96 dpi hardcoded, but I can change it to 120 dpi or some custom=20 > value. Funny, even Microsoft faces this issue... A lot of GUI "designers" simply assume fixed font sizes (i.e. in pixels), to make layout of dialog boxes etc. much easier. It's a lot harder to make a fully resizable design, that also adopts to different font sizes and/or styles. So if you (like me) have a 22" monitor with 1920x1440 resolution, you end up with extremely tiny, almost unreadable dialogs in most applications. :( ------------9D1F020627A88D68 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDDinTsF6jCi4glqMRAm8qAKCjqgl+Mw4sWswjlL4WKBu3gIm/7gCg1GWx 5tmm1BiF6IHPsvVZpPj8W34= =cTSA -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------9D1F020627A88D68--
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