Re: Emacs 23.2 plans

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Stefan Monnier skrev:
>> The upside is that Emacs integrates better to the Gnome desktop and
>> that we can control Xft-settings.  After all, if a user changes
>> hinting she probably wants it for all applications.  As Emacs now uses
>> the DPI value from Xsettings instead of from the X server, fonst look
>> the same.  This isn't the case now, Monospace-8 on Emacs and
>> gnome-terminal look quite different.
> 
> That's a very good change, yes.
> 
>> The downside is that user might be surprised to see the size of their fonts
>> change as the DPI value is now different.
> 
> If it can fix the problem that the default font size is much too large
> for all my screens (a 1600x1200 21" desktop, a 1400x1050 14" laptop,
> and a 1024x600 10" netbook), then I'm all for it, and I know I wouldn't
> be the only user to appreciate the change.  See bug#4547 for example.
> 

I will add some comments to that bug. It is confusing that DPI isn't really 
the physical DPI, but I think we should just adapt and move on.  Can you try 
Emacs now and see if it fixes your problem? It would make a good verification 
test.

	Jan D.