On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 09:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 05:16 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > If you use Fedora (Workstation, at least, and I think maybe KDE too) on
> > > a 3200x1800 13" screen then hidpi mode will kick in, and everything
> > > will be sized as if you were using a 1600x900 13" screen, which is a
> > > pretty common setup.
> >
> > Yes, Plasma 5 definitely handles that as a hidpi display.
> >
> > But KDE is actually much smarter and can handle any DPI, though you will
> > likely have to configure it manually, because as you explained, the
> > developers of the commonly used X drivers decided to be jerks and
> > deliberately report a bogus geometry.
>
> [Citation really needed]
Well, Kevin's framing of this is clearly...opionated...:) but my blog
post gave the citation.
https://www.happyassassin.net/2015/07/09/of-dpis-desktops-and-toolkits/
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86RandR...
as my post explained:
Oh, since I'm referring to an old post I should note one thing: after I
wrote that post (and partly because of it), GTK+'s behaviour was
changed to just use a hardcoded default of 96dpi, like GNOME.
Everywhere the post refers to GTK+ doing the same DPI calculation as
KDE/Qt, that's no longer true. It doesn't do that any more.
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