Mike Mestnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
