Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:42:38 +0100 From: "Simon Dick" <simond@irrelevant.org> To: <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi Message-ID: <20050826204255.B4F5E43D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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-----Original Message----- >From: "M. Warner Losh"<imp@bsdimp.com> >Sent: 26/08/05 06:54:38 >To: "dimitry@andric.com"<dimitry@andric.com> >Cc: "dougb@freebsd.org"<dougb@freebsd.org>, "past@ebs.gr"<past@ebs.gr>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org"<freebsd-current@freebsd.org> >Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi > >In message: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> > Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> 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 :-( Even my old 14MHz amiga had toolkits like MUI which did that
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