Comment 4 for bug 157398

This is a very critical bug, and "won't fix" is really not acceptable. It seems it's been discussed on the GNOME bugzilla that the default should only revert to 96dpi when the real DPI is not available: that is, either it's not detected at all, or the detected value is nonsensical (e.g. 50 !> dpi !>300). Any time a reasonable DPI is detected, it must be used as a default, otherwise the fonts on the desktop look completely wrong. There are many other bugs tied to this 99145, 279195, 253072, etc. At issue is the fact that when 96 is used as a default dpi, then the default font sizes in GNOME and many other applications are all much too large (see bug #310353).

Please change the status of this bug to "confirmed" as a fix is very desperately needed! My last laptop only ran at 1024x768 and had a DPI of 85, and this is quite common for a 15" screen. My current laptop has a DPI of 147, and my netbook is 134. None are 96! Also, DPIs are only going to continue to increase as the technology improves. The desktop needs to react to a variable DPI, and render all fonts the same physical size regardless of screen size or resolution.