Comment 18 for bug 589485

I'm sorry, but this really looks like an uncalled for change to me.

>This is intentional and follows the practice seen in many other desktop
>environments where the logical DPI of the screen is used as an application and
>font scaling factor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_size
A point is an unit of measure, 0.353 mm.
If I set a character to be 10 points high, it has to be 3.5mm high on a screen.
I understand this could be not the most natural behaviour on projectors, but the vast majority of people use screens, there's no need to cause them troubles.
(I don't even know if projectors report DPI in their Edid anyway.)
Unless explicitly overridden, X should respect Edid.

Fiddling gratuitously with the DPI makes default configurations almost unusable on high resolution screens (fonts are rendered too small).
It screws up the 1:1 display of documents and images; and I suppose it messes with input devices like tablets and touchscreens.

Even the default of 96dpi doesn't make sense, this resolution is getting less and less common every day.
Users
To further the annoyance, I haven't found a way to ovverride the 96dpi default in xorg.conf:
DisplaySize gets ignored, and so does Option "DPI".
Right now I'm stuck with xrandr --dpi in .xsessionrc - not what I'd call user friendly.
Please reconsider this change in behaviour.
What bug was it supposed to fix?

Regards,

Luca