(In reply to comment #27)
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:58:07PM -0800, bugzilla-dae...@freedesktop.org
> wrote:
> > --- Comment #26 from Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@altlinux.org> 2010-02-16
> > 22:58:04 PST ---
> > (In reply to comment #20)
> > > It was chosen in order to make display of web pages using Xorg more
> > > consistent
> > > with the way they get displayed on Windows, which by default assumes 96.
> >
> > Is it an official position of X.org developers? Is it documented anywhere?
>
> Sure, consider it an official position. I don't think it's
> unreasonable. Especially if you assume that lower-DPI displays are
> likely to be higher-resolution and thus physically huge, meaning that
> people sit further away from them, and that displays with a meaningfully
> higher DPI are almost always found in phones (as well as some laptops)
> these days, meaning that people hold them a great deal closer to their
> face.
>
> I do agree that being able to configure the reported DPI (or just Option
> "DontForce96DPI") would be entirely useful, but I can't see us changing
> anything in the near future, particularly if it breaks web page display.
> Saying 'well, don't go to that website then' isn't helpful to anyone at
> all, and makes us look like we value strict technical correctness ('but
> don't you know what the true definition of a point is?!?') over an
> actual working system. While we do value strict technical correctness,
> we don't value it to the point of crippling everything else.
Why are you trying to fix browser bugs in X?
If you want to fake the DPI to 96, that should be a configuration in
XRandr, or something, that people can easily disable, but it would be a
workaround, not a fix.
Setting a fixed DPI is completely and totally the wrong thing to do.
Say, my laptop's display has a DPI of 142, and then I plug my display of
101 DPI, the fonts will look completely different, and I would be forced
to change the font settings (if there are any).
Do you seriously think that people changing their font settings each
time they plug/unplug external displays is ideal?
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