On Sunday 27 April 2008 14:43:32 Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Tijl Coosemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If users want a graphical way of setting physical display size, then >> that's a job for the desktop environments to provide some tools to >> configure the local X server. > > Same applies to many other settings like fonts and colors. Wine uses > the DPI setting only as a way to scale fonts, not as a general size > scaler.
No, fonts and colors aren't server side settings. DPI is. >> The only time Wine should have to worry about DPI is when running >> apps that haven't been designed with high DPI in mind and therefore >> don't scale well (for instance when font sizes are set in points and >> other GUI elements are sized or positioned using pixels). But for >> those apps it might be good enough to provide a simple checkbox that >> says "override DPI to 96" or some other sensible default value. I >> don't know if there actually are such apps. > > Such apps would break in Windows as well, Win32 uses logical units > for its GUI elements, not pixels. Ah, that's good to know. Then why not get rid of that slider all together? DPI settings are not a Wine issue and should not be solved by Wine.
