[Bug 345189] Re: MASTER regression after switching system font size to 13.333 pixel - fonts appear too large in some apps that do hand made font sizing - treating pixel units as point units

[Oded Arbel]

It is still completely unclear to me why this change is pursued at all.

This negates the whole "automatic DPI detection" and goes against good
desktop display practices: Basically what you are saying is that the
font size should be set as device dependent (exact pixel size) even
though you do not know anything about the device!

A pixel size setting will only work if you compute it correctly against
the actual device DPI - which you can't know in advance: a default
setting of 13.333px will work great on 96DPI devices, but if my device
is 86 DPI it will look too big.

Worse - if the DPI is hardset to 96 (as it was before the auto
detection), and I fix this to the actual DPI of my device (for example -
after reading the manual that came with my screen), the font size will
not change as it is set to a physical px size instead of device
independent point size.

I think this is bad practice - choosing the correct pixel size for a
font is the job of the rendering infrastructure (after checking the
device's DPI and the required point size) and not the job of the vendor.

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MASTER regression after switching system font size to 13.333 pixel - fonts appear too large in some apps that do hand made font sizing - treating pixel units as point units
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345189
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