How to change the display's dots per inch setting

[Bill Davidsen]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:38:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 	[....]
>> Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to
>> flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else.
>
> 	The debate between the (mostly silent) elitists and the power to
> the people advocates has been seesawing for at least a decade or two; has
> anybody observed yet what the effect of the baby boomers retiring has
> had? I recall predicting that it would be substantial, but I can't recall
> seeing anything lately to tell me whether that prediction panned out --
> unless precisely this issue is to be the touchstone ....
>
I wonder if someone would like to take design of a user configurable UI in a 
window manager. Not the underlying features, the capabilities, but the 
presentation part. So a user could have a template of how the screen should 
look, independent of how things work under the hood. Would seem that with many 
people going back for graduate degrees, someone would want a useful thesis topic.

Think the original BIOS concept, the hardware vendor provided code to impliment 
a small number of operations available to the OS, any OS. Not like a device 
driver, which tends to be OS specific, but a canvas on which user can "draw" 
appearance. Of if it fits your mindset better, call it a css file, something not 
quite like a browser theme, more powerful.

I don't think you should count on baby boomers to do it, it sound like it needs 
one vision to keep it coherent, and an RFC committee to keep it sane.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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