Re: fontsize and dpi

-----Original Message-----
>From: "M. Warner Losh"<imp_at_bsdimp.com>
>Sent: 26/08/05 06:54:38
>To: "dimitry_at_andric.com"<dimitry_at_andric.com>
>Cc: "dougb_at_freebsd.org"<dougb_at_freebsd.org>, "past_at_ebs.gr"<past_at_ebs.gr>, "freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org"<freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi
>
>In message: <1977535713.20050825222803_at_andric.com>
>            Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com> writes:
>: On 2005-08-24 at 22:49:58 Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>: 
>: > Yeah, it seems that GNOME is imitating Windows in this. On Windows XP I
>: > get 96 dpi hardcoded, but I can change it to 120 dpi or some custom 
>: > value. Funny, even Microsoft faces this issue...
>: 
>: A lot of GUI "designers" simply assume fixed font sizes (i.e. in
>: pixels), to make layout of dialog boxes etc. much easier.  It's a lot
>: harder to make a fully resizable design, that also adopts to different
>: font sizes and/or styles.  So if you (like me) have a 22" monitor with
>: 1920x1440 resolution, you end up with extremely tiny, almost
>: unreadable dialogs in most applications. :(
>
>And to think that 50MHz sparcs were powerful enough to run a toolkit
>that I once worked on that did automatic layout so that things would
>line up, even when font sizes change on complex forms.  Glad to see
>that marketing triumped over technology :-(

Even my old 14MHz amiga had toolkits like MUI which did that