Comment 98 for bug 589485

Yes. As mentioned it is a single patch to apply, that has been available since the very first day the bug was reported, actually 8 years ago (I was wrong when I said 6). Incidentally, I was the second reporter of this issue, with Bug #572943, the second lowest numbered duplicate, one month before the bug that is hosting this discussion was opened. I started saying that the bug needed a higher priority in 2013. So, please, do not enter a discussion with a long history just to label things and be aggressive, rather start asking why that single patch remained not applied for 6-8 years.

Just to recall some history, the issue began with the use of EDID information for DPI being *intentionally* removed upstream, for many reasons including adhering to what other OSs used to do at that time. When some other people and I started insisting to have the feature restored at least in ubuntu, there was resistance. Resistance was partially justified (e.g. on the upstream lists, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 "CLOSED" as "NOT A BUG") by the consideration that merely reintroducing the feature was not enough and that a better vision for managing the growing variety of display types (including hi-dpi) was needed. This is why considerations on the approaches taken by other OSs and on long term desiderata started being discussed alongside the short term solutions.