I still suggest that:
- The interface should not be scalled. Text is rendered right now same size as the gnome desktop. Icons should be the same size that the rest of the gnome desktop.
- Scaling on the page contents could be useful for some people. But usually people with high dpi screen wants the things small and have a lot of contents on the screen.
Posible solutions:
- Scale only in *really* high dpi screens:
After scaling x2 in a 147dpi screen as mine the base resolution is 147/2= 73 dpi. That's *really* huge. I would consider scaling only when base resolution is 120-150 dpi when the human eye does not see the separate pixels. i.e. in a 300 dpi screen a x2 zoom would have base resolution of 150 dpi and things will look pretty. 73 dpi blurried x2 scaled image pixels are not pretty.
- Ask the user for his preference:
Show a dialog like this:
You screen has been detected to have very high resolution and the pages will be shown tiny (XX% the normal size on other screens). You can enable a default page zoom adequate to you screen in the preferences settings.
Still this happens with FF beta 3. Fonts are rendered normal (same as other gnome apps) but icons on the interface are doubled.
This is bug https:/ /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=394103 on firefox's bugzilla.
I still suggest that:
- The interface should not be scalled. Text is rendered right now same size as the gnome desktop. Icons should be the same size that the rest of the gnome desktop.
- Scaling on the page contents could be useful for some people. But usually people with high dpi screen wants the things small and have a lot of contents on the screen.
Posible solutions:
- Scale only in *really* high dpi screens:
After scaling x2 in a 147dpi screen as mine the base resolution is 147/2= 73 dpi. That's *really* huge. I would consider scaling only when base resolution is 120-150 dpi when the human eye does not see the separate pixels. i.e. in a 300 dpi screen a x2 zoom would have base resolution of 150 dpi and things will look pretty. 73 dpi blurried x2 scaled image pixels are not pretty.
- Ask the user for his preference:
Show a dialog like this:
You screen has been detected to have very high resolution and the pages will be shown tiny (XX% the normal size on other screens). You can enable a default page zoom adequate to you screen in the preferences settings.