[Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Tue Feb 23 09:42:44 EST 2010


Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 22 February 2010 03:13, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>  wrote:
>> You may want to ask in the soas ml, but in 0.88 we are going to make
>> it easier to users to change the default font size, so apps shouldn't
>> make any assumptions based on a fixed value for that.
>
> But, in the few cases where it is of importance, they should still be
> able to assume that a size 13 font will be rendered at physical size
> of 13/72 inches on a decent display. If Soas continues to hardcode a
> DPI value, this will not be true.

I can't find any evidence that we're currently doing this, as in: "the 
kickstart files used for the snapshots on our way to Cloudberry don't 
contain any DPI setting, afaics"

--Sebastian

> Daniel


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