[Bf-committers] HiDPI notes for other OS'es

Reuben Martin reuben.m at gmail.com
Sat Jun 29 18:16:12 CEST 2013


On Saturday, June 29, 2013 04:47:09 PM Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> It's not a reliable value to use, because it's not correctly reported
> by many monitors, and does not actually correspond to the DPI assumed
> by any other UI toolkit. I've looked for the right value for quite a
> while, but only conclusion I can find is that none of
> Gnome/KDE/Xfce/GTK/Qt/.. have proper high DPI support on Linux/X11,
> it's just not implemented. If one of them did we could copy the same
> mechanism to detect DPI.

Blog post from yesterday may provide insight into how others are tackling the 
issue.

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/06/28/hidpi-support-in-gnome/

-Reuben


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