Simon Law ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:27:50PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > > I would like to act on the proposal described in the web page, that > > is, get everyone to ship with X starting at a default DPI of 96x96, > > and have fontconfig changed to default to this as well. > > I must respectfully disagree. > > We really should get around to becoming "modern" and do > resolution-independent widgets. And so a fixed DPI will undermine > this attempt. > > Having the DPI value actually reflect the number of dots per inch, and > scaling our widgets with it will let us have well-rendered _smooth_ > fonts instead of the blurry ones we have now. > > Who wants to have itty-bitty fonts and icons when we get monitors that > can display 3200x2400? Let's find reasonable sizes for widgets and > then make them scale with the capabilities of high-resolution > displays.
Simon, I am merely proposing that the default DPI value of Debian systems be set to 96 DPI for all users. This does not prevent it being configured by the user later on. High resolution displays are definitely interesting and will probably require changes in a lot of areas, not just font sizes. I am not against scalable UIs either. What I am trying to do with my proposal is solve an awkward technical problem of how the default DPI is set on Debian systems. Right now, GNOME users default to 96 DPI, xdm users default to 100 DPI, and other users are randomly assigned DPIs anywhere in the range of 75-133. I believe that right now, we should adopt the GNOME standard everywhere as the default value for DPI. -Billy
