[Debian-eeepc-devel] Xserver 1.7 and screen DPI

[Ben Armstrong]

On 03/31/2010 10:03 AM, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> On the one hand, I feel that on a screen ad 135DPI reading fonts
> rendered at 96DPI is very hard, and could spoil the smooth experience
> one would like to have installing Debian.
> On the other hand, I see three problems:
> - automatically setting the proper resolution could be tricky.
> - it doesn't really belong to Debian-eee, it's a problem for every
> computer with a high resolution display.
> - doing tricks to revert an upstream choice is terribly bad.
>    

Yes, for all of these reasons I don't think our project should do 
anything about this.  It would be better to get agreement upstream, if 
you think the new default is bad.  In fact, if the upstream default is 
bad, I think hacking around it is just going to bury the problem.  
Better that the users experience a little pain here to cause so more 
noise and perhaps help upstream acknowledge there is a real problem they 
must address.

> I write this post more to have some feedback about your feeling with
> the new X behaviour and discuss about long term solutions then to
> propose a stopgap fix - I'm not convinced the latter would be a good
> choice.
> I thought this list would be a good place since all the Eees have very
> high screen resolutions.
>    

Just about the only help we can offer at this point to users is to 
cross-reference the bug in our wiki and summarize, documenting the best 
of the possible workarounds.  As for convincing upstream, will they 
really pay attention to what our little project has to say, even if we 
were all agreed that the new default is bad?  I'm unconvinced that 
starting the discussion here is the best place.

Ben