fontsize in 7.92

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 20:48 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/22/07, Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > That also means BTW that when you change laptop again your text will
> > > stay the same size regardless of the screen resolution, so you can
> > > invest the time to find good settings you'll keep them a long time.
> >
> > I'd be interested in a pointer to the discussion that led to this policy
> > change.
> >
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378338
> 
> Federico blogged about it, too:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2007-01.html#font-sizes

I've now commented in great detail on the bug explaining a few of the
reasons why I chose to hardcode 96dpi years ago. The situation has
changed a bit (and there would be an argument to up the 96dpi to
something higher), but most of the arguments against using the reported
monitor DPI as the logical font DPI still hold.

- Owen