Linux desktop and high resolution laptops

[Peter Laursen]

controls (per monitor if there is more than one)


even better:
controls (per monitor if there is more than one and per application)


On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> "setting a scale factor of two" is a much too simple logic IMO. There
> should be a number of scaling option (a logarithmic scale for this would
> obvious).
>
> Besides I am the user and I want controls (per monitor if there is more
> than one) so that I can tune it to my taste, the quality of my monitor(s)
> and the applications I use. It is OK that the desktop has a reasonable
> default, of course, but user controls could be at least "very_small ..
> small ..normal/default .. large ..very_large" for instance. System should
> not take control(s) away from user.
>
> I accept that there is an ongoing process, and it is not simple nor
> trivial. Various mainstream Linux desktops should agree on a common
> mechanism (so that it will work for KDE applications running in Gnome, for
> instance). But that is of course also not easy. I don't think the
> developers of different desktops communicate much and they use different
> 'abstraction layers' (various versions of qt and GTK as well as X11 versus
> Wayland (soon)) for development.
>
> -- Peter
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:51 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > @drago1 .. you have posted two confilcting statements.
>> >
>> > Frist you stated that if *the vertical resolution* ...  And you even
>> wrote a
>> > specific number (1440)
>>
>> No I did not Florian did. And he meant "a high dpi display with a
>> vertical resolution of 1440" not "any display with a vertical
>> resolution of 1440"
>>
>> > Next you stated that if *the DPI* ...
>> > .. there is no simple correlation between monitor resolution and DPI (as
>> > monitors have different size).
>>
>> Yes I know a hidpi display is one with ... a high dpi value ;)
>>
>> What GNOME does is basically this: If the DPI (computed from screen
>> size *and* resolution) is bigger then 192 it will turn on hidpi
>> support which means
>> setting a scale factor of two.
>>
>> So if you have 2560x1440 display with a size of 22 inch .. it won't do
>> anything.
>> If you have a 2560x1440 display with a size of 12 inch ... it will
>> turn on hidpi scaling.
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>
>
>
> --
> Hilsen / Regards
>
> Peter Laursen
>



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Hilsen / Regards

Peter Laursen
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