[Bug 372912] New: (Affects many versions) Inconsistent font sizes depending on screen resolution
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372912 Summary: (Affects many versions) Inconsistent font sizes depending on screen resolution Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 3 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: SaX2 AssignedTo: ms@novell.com ReportedBy: probono@myrealbox.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer Created an attachment (id=203396) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=203396) 1024x768 Screenshot On openSUSE systems in general, I keep getting inconsistent font sizes on various machines, depending on screen resolution. For a long time I thought this might be intentional, but closer investigation reveals that fonts on a 1024x768 screen are *larger* (=consist of more pixels on the screen) than the same fonts on a 1280x1024 screen. See the screenshots attached. The same fonts should take up exactly the same amount of pixels on any screen, unless the user intentionally configures the screen to use another resolution. Otherwise, e.g., menu fonts look different all the time (compare the fonts in Firefox from the 2 screenshots). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #5 from Mike Fabian
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Mike Fabian
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--- Comment #7 from Simon Peter
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--- Comment #8 from Felix Miata
From most users' perspective, it is as Mike wrote, better to have a correct DPI regardless what the resolution is. Assumptions just don't work when the actual DPI strays more than a little away from average. That average is typically assumed to be 96, as that's what Windows assumes out of the box.
For laptops, through vendor intervention, Windows is just about as likely to assume 120 as it is 96, as the laptop vendors know sales are poor when actual DPI is high without a correspondingly high DPI to match. That mismatch makes things too tiny, which pushes buyers away.. If you want your two systems to match in spite of actual DPI differences, you can force DPI up or down on one of them to match the other, and you can do it on any distro using an Xorg version and drivers that aren't broken on your hardware. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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