[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 3164] font size too small after upgrade to 4.4.1

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |




------- Comment #21 from bjt23 at cornell.edu  2007-05-25 17:21 UTC -------
While the real solution here is to just fix the drivers, obviously that hasn't
happened yet, and who knows when it will happen.

I agree that setting an arbitrary value isn't a good idea: for the people whose
drivers are good, you're (probably) setting an incorrect value.  For the people
whose drivers are bad, you're at least setting a sensible value, but it's still
probably the wrong value.  So it's hard to say that forcing 96 dpi is a good
idea when, in most cases, it's probably wrong.

I think the best solution here would be a tunable option in the User Interfaces
settings panel.  The default should be "system default", where the dpi isn't
set to anything; if the user wants, they can switch from the default to
something custom, whether it's 75, 96, 100, or whatever.  This would also allow
users to set the 'wrong' dpi if they want to for some reason (tweak font sizes
of all apps that use xft to draw, not just gtk; make the font size settings
seem more 'natural' to them, etc.).

I do think this is useful/important enough to add to 4.4 branch, even though
it's sorta half-bug-fix, half-new-feature.  Olivier, are you ok with that?


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