"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM, L. Rahyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 200 DPI limit is acceptable for most users. However, what this patch >> done by >> setting maximum to this small value (144) doesn't seems to be acceptable. > > Users really are lost if they set a too-high value. > They don't know how to do alt+mouse_move. > Thus simply setting the limit higher again would > be a support nightmare; we got a preview of that > on wine-users recently, with user after user panicking. > > But as I wrote in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9715 > we can probably do something that will make everybody > happy: arrange for winecfg to never let the user set > dpi so high that winecfg is bigger than the screen. > That's probably pretty easy to do. > > And we can probably make high-res users happier still > by defaulting to Xft.dpi (used by Gnome and maybe KDE; > it's set by default to 96, but is increased by some users > of high-res displays). > > Anyone willing to try implementing that? I'd do it, but I'm kind of > limited by sore hands and time these days...
How about doing what Windows does - add a font preview to allow the user to see an actual size of the font he/she will get after the change? -- Dmitry.
