font size, dpi and rendering in KDE and Gnome

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:34, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 20:58 schrieb Felix Miata:

> > Modern distros serve their own versions of X in varied ways. X is made up
> > of several components, any of which can have its own idea what DPI is or
> > is supposed to be. It's a complicated subject. That means no easy answer
> > given limited facts, and likely no easy answer even given copious facts.
> > It should work right out of the box, but often doesn't, sometimes because
> > one person's idea of "works" is different from the distro maker.
>
> Strange, works on OSX and a certain otherwise looked down upon operating
> system from Redmond.
> And no, it actually *is* simple: provide screen dimensions in xorg.conf and
> use the resulting values systemwide, I don't see how this is difficult.

The problem is that some environments use a fixed DPI setting (Windows does 
this as well) instead of using the DPI settings reported by the X server.
So adjusting the screen dimensions to get the real values does not help, 
actually setting the DPI settings to those assumed for example by GNOME would 
help, as KDE would then use the same ones.

AFAIK there will be an option to override the DPI settings in the next KDE 
version, so people that use KDE applications on GNOME can tell them to not 
use the real DPI values but the ones GNOME uses instead,

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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