Re: Linux desktop and high resolution laptops
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1)
Good point here "Apple can afford it as they control both HW and SW".
Let us take an example: say we have 14" and a 15" laptop with same physical
resolution. If the logic is simply to scale a factor 2 if DPI exceeds a
certain fixed threshold, it may happen that this threshold is exceeded on
the 14" screen and not on the 15" and icons, controls, text etc.will be
printed to the screen almost twice as big on the 14" screen as compared to
the 15". This makes little sense to me. The small one may have a better
quality monitor and could in some cases actually better be able to cope with
unscaled display than the bigger one. An one person may be able to (and may
prefer to) ane another person may not.
2)
"The web has a concept of device pixels vs css pixels as well". Does
anybody know how Chromebooks handle it? That could bring a new perspective
into discussion.
Which discussion actually? It is not clear to me what are you asking
here. You asked a question it got answered.
The other mails are basically
1) Don't take control away from the user --- no one is doing that
2) Give us a non integer scaling factor --- you have been told why it
is not feasible
3) Multimonitor --- as already stated this requires wayland and will
be hopefully done for F21