The correct DPI is needed for legibility when the same user uses the same font size settings on multiple monitors. When the user sets the base font size to be legible in on 1 monitor and then goes to another which has a higher (true) DPI he will get poorly legible fonts.
The correct DPI is needed for WYSIWYG, which is a holy grail of desk top publishing (DTP). X Windows applications increasingly aspire to be suitable for DTP. Look into the future. Monitors have not attained the highest useful DPI. This is only going to become a more pronounced deficiency as monitors increase in DPI. In fact, I suspect that monitor DPI has been somewhat held back by lack of proper support for automatically setting DPI. If current common monitors were completely adequate, we would not care about antialiasing or font hinting so much. 1200DPI or higher is found in printers and I am inclined to think it is not completely a marketing gimmick. 96DPI printers are practically nonexistant. I used to make fun of how MS Windows could not manage to set the DPI correctly automatically, unlike my Xorg, to friends and co-workers. No one attempted to rebut it. Instead of being "compatible with old versions of MS Windows" better is "compatible with reality". Playing a hoax on programmers by default is a bad thing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
