[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#763421: Bug#763421: fixed in chromium-browser 43.0.2357.65-1

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu., 2015-05-21 at 22:22 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>  ❦ 21 mai 2015 22:03 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> :
> 
> >>> Well, I have no more idea. I am using 144 DPI (set through XSETTINGS and
> >>> through the X server via xrandr) and Chromium correctly handles this
> >>> since this version
> >>
> >> Maybe there's a cutoff somewhere, I'm not sure. I've tried to force 144
> >> dpi but it still doesn't look good with the default scaling (but it's
> >> not as bad, and I know I like my widgets tinier than most people).
> >
> > There may be some restrictions on the factor you can set. For example,
> > GDK had a long time limitation of only allowing integers (GDK_SCALE
> > needs to be an integer as far as I know). Maybe there is still some
> > restrictions. 144 is 1.5*96. You can try 192 too to see if the result is
> > better.
> 
> If you wanted to dig a bit, the code is here:
> 
>  http://sources.debian.net/src/chromium-browser/43.0.2357.65-1/chrome/browser/ui/libgtk2ui/gtk2_ui.cc/#L384-L392
> 
> It seems there is almost no rounding. GetDeviceScaleFactor is then used
> for web rendering too. You could try to check what you get with

<snip>

> Compile with gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0) -Wall dpi.c -o dpi

I think GTK+ has no issue using the DPI value, since other apps (whether
GTK2 like Xfce stuff, or GTK3 like zenity or others) have the correct
widgets and font size.
> 
> Do you get the right value?

corsac at scapa: ./dpi
DPI: 179200


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Yves-Alexis
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