Re: Parsing of fontconfig font names and other font related stuff.

[Jason Rumney]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
> > Yes.  Gnome has 96 dpi as default (settable in a user desktop 
> > settings dialog), fontconfig seems to have 75.
>
> I'm surprised that both Gnome and fontconfig are using hard-coded 
> values, and not getting the monitor spec from X (at least on my system 
> the X server reports the physical size it has read from the monitor at 
> startup, so the information required to get the proper dpi setting 
> appears to be in there somewhere).

Actually, re-reading what you wrote, they may be doing that but snapping 
to a commonly used dpi value (Windows does that, defaulting to either 
72, 96dpi or 120dpi, depending on monitor resolution).  Since your 
actual monitor resolution is about half way between 75 and 96, 
fontconfig and Gnome may be doing that snapping differently - also a lot 
of X fonts seem to be either 75 or 100dpi, so font config may be using 
those to snap to, while Gnome is using the same values as Windows.

It'd be good if someone like freedesktop.org could work out a spec for 
everyone to follow so that things were consistent, as lack of 
consistency in areas like this is one of the biggest complaints from 
Windows and Mac users trying to switch to Free software.