From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Parsing of fontconfig font names and other font related stuff. Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:54:48 +0900 Message-ID: <87prca945j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <4A539AB0.3010605@swipnet.se> <4A545A85.2060803@swipnet.se> <4A548C7A.5020309@swipnet.se> <877hyj9tob.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4A54AD41.4020103@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247093714 28504 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2009 22:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 00:55:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOg2b-0007od-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOg2a-0005Ej-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOg2W-0005EU-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOg2S-0005DF-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35979 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOg2S-0005DC-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:43461) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOg2O-0008NP-Ar; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.236.29.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.236.29] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1MOg2L-0002ik-AZ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:54:49 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9009DDF32; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:54:48 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <4A54AD41.4020103@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv=22's?= message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:29:21 +0200") Original-Lines: 24 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112205 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: >> You'd think, but IIRC, Gnome just fucks this up. >> >> [I think it's a "policy" fuckup rather than a technical one.] > > The argument I've seen is that selecting font sizes isn't a linear > operation (i.e. proportional to dpi), but an angular one (i.e. depends > on the size of the screen and the distance to the screen). So for > example laptop users sit closer to the screen and don't want fonts to be > so much bigger as implied by the dpi difference. Another one is that > DPI is kind of fuzzy anyway, for example for projectors. That's an argument for making the DPI user-settable/tweakable and/or with default adjustments based on display type. It does't seem related to fixing DPI at 96 dpi though. [My impression was that Gnome was just copying the identical MS fuckup, which _does_ seem to have been a technical one...] -Miles --=20 `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness'