On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:42 PM, fargo@rpgportland.com wrote:
Looking at an article about the release of the 9.04 Alpha, I saw
this and thought I'd pass it on-
"Font dot-per-inch settings are now optimized based on your
monitor's capabilities, rather than defaulting to 96 dpi. You can
further customize your dpi settings via System; Preferences;
Appearance; Fonts ; Details.."
I have no idea what the ramifications of that will be, but hey,
sharing is caring.
I'll tell you what this means - it means that no matter how hard we
try to get our apps to look good on Linux, the user will have the
power to totally ruin our work by changing the DPI setting. We've
had this power in OpenSuSE and Fedora under GNOME for the last 3
releases. My best recommendation is that you warn the user to use
the default setting of 96 DPI for best results.
If they go lower, your app will still look right, but if they go
higher - 112 for example, the fonts will cause everything on your app
to be too big for its container - pushbuttons, comboboxes,
editfields, popupmenus, anything that "contains" your font without
resizing based on the font's dimensions.
Tim
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