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Do you know of any major OSes that actually have resolution indepdence? I've never heard of an OS auto-adjusting the DPI (Windows certainly doesn't, and Linux n
by moxiemk1 16y ago
Do you know of any major OSes that actually have resolution indepdence? I've never heard of an OS auto-adjusting the DPI (Windows certainly doesn't, and Linux never has for me), nor have I seen any OS do so correctly even when you do it manually.
However, Apple has started efforts for OS frameworks to support resolution-independent apps that would be able to resized at will without losing proportion.
- _delirium 16y agoX.org has auto-calculated it for a while, if your monitor reports physical size via DDC. It's up to application-level stuff whether they do anything with the X server's DPI or not, but I believe both KDE and Gnome adjust their font rendering accordingly. Gnome has its own internal DPI, which you can set separately, but since about mid-2007 it defaults to the X server's auto-calculated DPI. Seems to work on my setup--- if I override my monitor's detected DPI via xorg.conf, the font sizes change.
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- anujseth 16y agoThe newer managed code UI libraries for Windows, WPF and Silverlight are built from the ground up to support resolution independence. Further reading, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms748373.aspx#visual_rendering_behavior http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms748373.aspx#visual... http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2005/11/250723.html http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2005/11/250723.html
- jackvalentine 16y agoMy Vaio has a 143dpi screen (1920x1080 on 15.4") and applications written to take heed of my DPI setting look great, other apps do not - in particular chrome and firefox which you need to use extensions to have it remember your custom zoom settings correctly. It can get quite frustrating.