From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 20:28:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50EC16A41F; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:28:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.xs4all.nl (tensor.xs4all.nl [194.109.160.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300AD43D49; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:28:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from kilgore.dim (kilgore.dim [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C46B840; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:28:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:28:03 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.60.03 Forerunner (Beta)) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> To: Panagiotis Astithas 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------9D1F020627A88D68" Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dimitry Andric List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:28:09 -0000 ------------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--