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

[Miles Bader]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
>> You'd think, but IIRC, Gnome just fucks this up.
>>
>> [I think it's a "policy" fuckup rather than a technical one.]
>
> The argument I've seen is that selecting font sizes isn't a linear
> operation (i.e. proportional to dpi), but an angular one (i.e. depends
> on the size of the screen and the distance to the screen).  So for
> example laptop users sit closer to the screen and don't want fonts to be
> so much bigger as implied by the dpi difference.  Another one is that
> DPI is kind of fuzzy anyway, for example for projectors.

That's an argument for making the DPI user-settable/tweakable and/or
with default adjustments based on display type.

It does't seem related to fixing DPI at 96 dpi though.

[My impression was that Gnome was just copying the identical MS fuckup,
which _does_ seem to have been a technical one...]

-Miles

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