Linux desktop and high resolution laptops

[drago01]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk at 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

s/F21/F22/