<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 20:33, Adam Williamson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@redhat.com">awilliam@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:06 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:<br>
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> That isn't to say that the default which has been selected is correct.<br>
> It seems correct to me but perhaps you are seeing some kind of<br>
> DPI-related scaling issue which is making 11pt quite incorrect. (You<br>
> should be at 96 DPI and some xdpyinfo output might be helpful here.)<br>
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</div>The native DPI of one of my laptops is 221 (Sony Vaio P) and the other<br>
is 140 (Vaio Z). Needless to say, 11pt at 96dpi looks fairly uselessly<br>
tiny on both. Assuming 96dpi seems rather the contrary of all the other<br>
design decisions in GNOME 3 - assuming brokenness and accommodating it,<br>
rather than 'doing the right thing' for the long term.<br></blockquote><div><br>And what do you have the X server report when you plug said laptops in to external monitors or projectors? It's not even remotely a trivial problem to solve...<br>
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