Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:54:38 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dimitry@andric.com Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, past@ebs.gr, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi Message-ID: <20050825.235438.25159723.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> References: <200508242013.10840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <430CDD76.9060005@ebs.gr> <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com>
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Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> writes:
: On 2005-08-24 at 22:49:58 Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
:
: > Yeah, it seems that GNOME is imitating Windows in this. On Windows XP I
: > get 96 dpi hardcoded, but I can change it to 120 dpi or some custom
: > value. Funny, even Microsoft faces this issue...
:
: A lot of GUI "designers" simply assume fixed font sizes (i.e. in
: pixels), to make layout of dialog boxes etc. much easier. It's a lot
: harder to make a fully resizable design, that also adopts to different
: font sizes and/or styles. So if you (like me) have a 22" monitor with
: 1920x1440 resolution, you end up with extremely tiny, almost
: unreadable dialogs in most applications. :(
And to think that 50MHz sparcs were powerful enough to run a toolkit
that I once worked on that did automatic layout so that things would
line up, even when font sizes change on complex forms. Glad to see
that marketing triumped over technology :-(
Warner
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