Is this bug fixed in a newer release? A fix would be using the original behaviour or providing an option to revert to the original behaviour.
I got a new monitor with 109 DPI yesterday and started to struggle with too small font sizes. I was not aware of this bug because my old monitor had approximately 96 dpi. In my opinion it is a wrong decision to not use the correct dpi of the device. This is the best choice one can make to get readable fonts. If one wants to consider the different viewing distance for projectors then the distance should be added as an additional option to the projector or to the X server such that the effective DPI can be calculated. Using a fixed value of 96 is plain wrong. It is also a problem that each tool starts to mess with the DPI settings: - X ignores the correct setting and uses 96 DPI - Firefox has its own DPI emulation - KDE has a setting for the DPI it should assume - For Scribus and Gimp one has to set the correct DPI in the settings. Relying on the server is no longer possible. - The latex beamer package assumes that slides are 15cm x 10cm to account for the larger viewing distance with projectors. Instead of having a simple central spot of DPI configuration the user has to cope with increased complexity. I also think that the website argument is not relevant. I've used a notebook for several years with 144 DPI. This was before the discussed changes and X used the correct DPI value. Some websites had problems with too small graphical elements compared to the font but I cannot remember that this made a website completely unusable. It scares me to imagine how the fonts would look like with 96 DPI on such a device. Finally I could always show Windows users that with X11 WYSIWYG is possible out-of-the-box while on their system the printout does not match the shown contents. With the introduction of this bug this is no longer possible. -- 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
