From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 20:42:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3A216A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:42:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (dsl82-163-99-113.as15444.net [82.163.99.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F5E43D48 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:42:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from dsl82-163-99-114.as15444.net ([82.163.99.114] helo=Inbox) by home.irrelevant.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1E8l27-000LKp-Cg; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:42:53 +0100 From: "Simon Dick" To: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:42:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.1432.1 X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts Message-Id: <20050826204255.B4F5E43D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:42:57 -0000 -----Original Message----- >From: "M. Warner Losh" >Sent: 26/08/05 06:54:38 >To: "dimitry@andric.com" >Cc: "dougb@freebsd.org", "past@ebs.gr", "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" >Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi > >In message: <1977535713.20050825222803@andric.com> > Dimitry Andric 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 :-( Even my old 14MHz amiga had toolkits like MUI which did that