On 17.10.2017 13:42, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Brown composed on 2017-10-17 09:36 (UTC+0200):
Take your concerns regarding this bug to the upstream GNOME community where they belong.
1-I tried that, and had no luck figuring out where any such discussion has taken place. All I found is the disdainful (Clasen/RedHat) attitude in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757142 comment 3 whose foundation is laid upon a much older (RedHat originated) usurpation of sensible behavior, that is, not employing the server's automatic display density calculation (not letting the computer do the computing), which would obviate need for need for manual override in the first place: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 "xserver forces 96 DPI on randr-1.2-capable drivers, overriding correct autodetection" https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41115 "Please add option to avoid forcing of 96dpi"
2-I'm not part of the Gnome community and don't expect ever will be. Gnome is what turned me off of Linux on first exposure to it two decades ago. It took KDE through Mandrake and later SUSE to overcome that poor taste. I use Mozilla (and thus the thorn that is GTK) only due to absence of alternatives. What standing would I have to be heard there?
This isn't just about Gnome. It's about surreptitious forcing, absent explicit specification, of 96 DPI in Xorg, of which Xft.dpi (about which bug 757142) is only one method. 96 DPI is an anti-usability, anti-accessibility travesty upon those with poorer than average vision, the underlying reason for my interest in the subject bug.
Well, if corporate officials are so keen on breaking their distro just for the sake of some solidarity with Gnome/KDE/FD madmen, maybe we should rely on user repoes for that. Does anyone already keep branch-forks on OBS for Xorg and GTK3 with these DPI patches ? I'm too lazy to do it for myself and don't have necessity yet but would switch to them without a second thought. Or maybe it's time to switch distro entirely. They already ditched live installer, so, I wouldn't be able to reliably do new TW installs with my fixes anyway. And there are seem to be some alternatives rising with their analogues to OBS. And from countries that don't recognize software patenting to that. Their updates are slower and community is smaller, thought. Yet. It seems that public build farm that gives us the ability to selectively defy anti-user behaviour like this is the last and only thing that's going for openSUSE these days.