status of single monitor support

[Robert Knight]

Hi,

Until quite recently all of the primary graphics libraries for
Windows, Linux (and presumably Mac?) use pixels as their basic unit of
measurement.  Naturally when you increase the number of pixels that
can fit in a particular space then everything consequently gets
smaller.

There is work going on to make toolkits resolution independent.
Microsoft is already there with Windows Presentation Foundation and Qt
is part the way there with QGraphicsView.  KDE meanwhile is using
vector graphics as the basis for icons, backgrounds and other artwork
these days so we're ready when the time comes.  I'm not sure what the
situation is with the Mac.

I'm sure the Trolls have discussed this in much more detail internally
- who knows.

Regards,
Robert.

2008/10/13 Guillaume Pothier <gpothier at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think the DE should have a function that adjusts the sizes of everything according to the resolution. Or at least an option that will honor such a function. A good way of implementing this idea to font sizes is to have an option to display the Font sizes in metric units rather than pixels in KDE's Font Settings dialog. Or -if it has to be kept the same way- we should simply call it something other than "resolution".
>
> Actually, I think users should not even have to deal with resolution
> anymore as nowadays most monitors are LCDs and have a native
> resolution that shouldn't have to be changed. What you want to change
> is the zoom factor.
> In several DEs, this can be achieved by adjusting the DPI settings (I
> don't know if it works in KDE4). There are two issues with that: first
> the setting is not usually easy to find, and second (but not very
> important), DPI are not, in my opinion, a good measure, because in the
> end the size at which a font is readable depends both on the number of
> pixels and on the distance you are from the monitor. Should be DPA:
> Dot Per Arcminute ;-)
> What would be great would be to be able to adjust the "zoom factor"
> easily, like with a slider and the effect are visible in realtime.
> Bonus points for being able to do that for individual windows, or per
> monitor: in my case I have a quite high-DPI monitor (1920x1200, 15.4")
> which is usually further away from my eyes than my lower-DPI 22",
> 1680x1050 monitor. Thus everything on that first monitor looks
> minuscule.
>
> g
>
>>
>> There are monitors out there with resolutions as high as 2560x1600 and I am sure these numbers will keep growing. Fonts of size 9, for example,  are totally illegible on a 24'' monitor with such a resolution.
>>
>> Have a great day!
>> -oget
>>
>> PS: You may have noticed that the title was inspired by the other thread. All credits go to the original author :)
>>
>>
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