From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 05:55:19 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 5ECB516A41F; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:55:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.village.org (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D1643D45; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:55:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7Q5sLtG094687; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:54:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:54:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20050825.235438.25159723.imp@bsdimp.com> To: dimitry@andric.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> References: <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430CDD76.9060005@ebs.gr> <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.village.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:54:22 -0600 (MDT) Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, past@ebs.gr, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:55:19 -0000 In message: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> Dimitry Andric writes: : 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 : > 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. :( And to think that 50MHz sparcs were powerful enough to run a toolkit that I once worked on that did automatic layout so that things would line up, even when font sizes change on complex forms. Glad to see that marketing triumped over technology :-( Warner