Bug 75582
| Summary: | gconf-editor crashes on dpi option | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gérard Milmeister <gemi> |
| Component: | gconf-editor | Assignee: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | otaylor |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | MoveUpstream, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:49:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Gérard Milmeister
2002-10-09 23:29:18 UTC
I think we had a fairly compelling rationale for the current default dpi (including that both mac and windows use it, but there were other reasons also), but gconf-editor should be fixed. If your fonts were really wrong it may have been some non-dpi-related issue, I don't know. *** Bug 75583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Here is my configuration: I have a 17" monitor and resolution 1280x1024. The ddc detects a resolution of x times y dpi, where x and y are different and between 90 and 100 or so. This is the right thing to do of course, e.g. to display real circles correctly in a graphics program. However, GNOME 1.4 apps and most other 'legacy' apps use the Helvetica 12pt bitmap font for its menus (which I still find the best-looking font for non-antialiased display). So it is really unsettling to see that if you select for example Arial 12 pt in GNOME 2.0, its real size is very different from the usual Helvetica 12pt font. I had to set both the X server dpi setting and the gconf setting to 75, so that I get the former, in my opinion, consistent setting. I hope you understand that I see this as a problem? So in short, I expect that Arial 12pt in GNOME 2.0 has the size that I have in other apps. We are working on making all font rendering on the system use fontconfig
and Xft, so that will make Helvetica 12 the same size in all programs.
The separation of physical DPI from the "logical" DPI used to convert
font points into pixels:
a) Generally is the right thing to do - appropriate font sizes depend more
on angular resolution than linear resolution - think of a handheld
that you view the image from a foot away, or a projector where you view
the image from 30 feet away.
b) Is needed because using a fixed logical DPI is needed to get good
looking user interfaces unless all elements (images, lines, etc)
in the interface are scalable.
c) Is what windows does (as well as a default logical dpi of 96), so is
needed to correctly display web pages.
d) Is needed because physical resolution is often autoprobed incorrectly
by X.
Well, as I said this is true, but currently the result seems to be less than optimal, and from discussion forums I see, that I am not the only one disatisfied with the resulting, actual font sizes. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70687 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |