Linux desktop and high resolution laptops

Peter Laursen jazcyk at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 13:09:40 UTC 2015


I don't agree with 2). And I am not the only onein this discussion as I
understand.  If it is not feasible it is a limitation somewhere in toolkits
used. Windows handles it.

-- Peter

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
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Hilsen / Regards

Peter Laursen
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