Comment 29 for bug 589485

(In reply to comment #27)
> Sure, consider it an official position. I don't think it's
> unreasonable. Especially if you assume that lower-DPI displays are
> likely to be higher-resolution and thus physically huge, meaning that
> people sit further away from them, and that displays with a meaningfully
> higher DPI are almost always found in phones (as well as some laptops)
> these days, meaning that people hold them a great deal closer to their
> face.

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, web browsers such as Firefox do
the Right Thing(tm) by default on lower resolution displays, and don't
need any help from Xorg. Firefox can be configured to do the same thing
for high resolution displays, still without any help from Xorg. I agree
that extremely low resolution displays are very likely to be TVs or
projectors.

> I do agree that being able to configure the reported DPI (or just Option
> "DontForce96DPI") would be entirely useful, but I can't see us changing
> anything in the near future, particularly if it breaks web page display.
> Saying 'well, don't go to that website then' isn't helpful to anyone at
> all, and makes us look like we value strict technical correctness ('but
> don't you know what the true definition of a point is?!?') over an
> actual working system. While we do value strict technical correctness,
> we don't value it to the point of crippling everything else.

When the DPI is falsely set to 96 on a high resolution laptop display,
the result is *NOT* an "actual working system".