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Re: KDE vs gnome vs openoffice screen resolution!
by Kosh on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @07:21

I disagree with this entirely. Windows is going to be changing this behavior with Vista to be the true DPI of the monitor instead of the hack they have now. I have no idea why gnome is using that stupid hack but I want the dpi to be set correctly. A 16pt font should be the same size on any size display regardless of resolution. Increased resolution gives greater accuracy in rendering it does not change the size of any element. KDE behaves correctly by default for this. I can run kde on a high dpi monitor and have no problems at all. However with windows you need special driver hacks to make it work. I expect you will need the same hacks on gnome to make it do the right thing.

Displays are getting higher rez and higher dpi all the time and so going back to a hack about the way people are used to is just a horrible idea. KDE needs to stay the way it is now and the problem will sort itself out over time. Actually if other systems did things correctly there would not be a good reason to run in anything other then the max resolution that the device you where using supports since that would give a better quality image.

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Re: KDE vs gnome vs openoffice screen resolution!
by fast_rizwaan on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @19:50

> Displays are getting higher rez and higher dpi all the time and so going back to a hack about the way people are used to is just a horrible idea.

You are exactly right, but is there any free-standard for DPI (dots per inches) for free-desktops like KDE, GNome, XFCE?:

I can't find any at: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards

perhaps freedesktop did not notice dpi issues with "font sizes" with different desktops.

There are millions of Monitors which will take another 5 years to change, till then KDE applications' documents and text look different from other desktops! and this is also a horrible idea!

Making 96dpi by default (with KDE) make font sizes in harmony with other desktops and applications (openoffice), consistency could be achieved.

Letting users decide to have (96 or Autodetected resolution) settings in kcontol will solve the issue for good.

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Re: KDE vs gnome vs openoffice screen resolution!
by Christian Loose on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @00:52

> You are exactly right, but is there any free-standard for DPI (dots per inches) for free-desktops like KDE, GNome, XFCE?:

It seems you are totally confused. DPI isn't something you agree on. It's determined by dividing width (or height) of the display area in pixels, by width (or height) of the display area in inches.

So a 14.1 inches wide by 11.3 inches high monitor with a resultion of 1280x1024
has a dpi of 91x91.

> Making 96dpi by default (with KDE) make font sizes in harmony with other desktops and applications

No, it will make the font size wrong on many monitors.

> Letting users decide to have (96 or Autodetected resolution) settings in kcontol will solve the issue for good

Others should already how do achieve this.

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