From kde-core-devel  Tue Aug 29 05:59:01 2006
From: Germain Garand <germain () ebooksfrance ! org>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:59:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: FEATURE: Forcing DPI setting for fonts
Message-Id: <200608290759.01089.germain () ebooksfrance ! org>
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Le Lundi 28 Août 2006 11:35, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
> Am Montag, 28. August 2006 01:34 schrieb Germain Garand:
> > I'm not sure there is any portable way to get the real display DPI from
> > Qt if the Xft.dpi setting has been tampered with ;(
>
> The problem is that there enough computers you can't get the real display
> DPI even if not configured ;(
> Because too many computers are "designed for XP" - which does not care
> about what the monitor says.

but this isn't anything new, by the way. 
Now, with distributors also changing the Xft dpi (apparently in the hope that 
two wrongs will make a right), there are very serious chances that *both* dpi 
values will be wrong (was the case on my Mandriva hi-res laptop).

So the only thing this kind of "breakthrough" brings is that the mere 
possibility of having a correct X11 desktop dpi wise is drifting away.
</rant>

Germain