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  1. Bug #118745
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 118745

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 118745] Re: Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection

Hi,

Mark Shuttleworth [2007-06-28 17:33 -0000]:
> - since gutsy, font sizes are too small.
> + In Gutsy, Gnome switched to using the X server's screen DPI detection,
> + which means that fonts can easily appear to be too large or too small,
> + depending on your screen setup. The old approach was to use 96 DPI by
> + default, but the new one can result in widely differing DPI values. We
> + need to improve the detection, or give people an easy way to tweak these
> + values so that the result looks good on their system.

I agree. At the moment, changing the DPI value in the Appearance
dialog doesn't have any effect at least on my installed system.