"Dan Kegel" dank@kegel.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM, L. Rahyen research@science.su wrote:
200 DPI limit is acceptable for most users. However, what this patch done bysetting maximum to this small value (144) doesn't seems to be acceptable.
Users really are lost if they set a too-high value. They don't know how to do alt+mouse_move. Thus simply setting the limit higher again would be a support nightmare; we got a preview of that on wine-users recently, with user after user panicking.
But as I wrote in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9715 we can probably do something that will make everybody happy: arrange for winecfg to never let the user set dpi so high that winecfg is bigger than the screen. That's probably pretty easy to do.
And we can probably make high-res users happier still by defaulting to Xft.dpi (used by Gnome and maybe KDE; it's set by default to 96, but is increased by some users of high-res displays).
Anyone willing to try implementing that? I'd do it, but I'm kind of limited by sore hands and time these days...
How about doing what Windows does - add a font preview to allow the user to see an actual size of the font he/she will get after the change?