How to swee youtube videos,

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 20:59 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Um, you seem to have missed the POINT about how to set font sizes, pun
> intended.  If the fonts *really* were 16 pixels as the program likes
> to
> pretend, on one screen they'd look like flea poo, on another they'd be
> quite big.  Setting font sizes using pixels as the reference point is
> an
> incredibly DUMB way to do it, made even more worse by not actually
> using
> the pixel as the size (it's scaled, yet still calling itself pixel
> size).  You can see that nasty effect when you do calibrate a system
> properly, putting the *real* DPI into your configuration (that's the
> dots per inch that's available to draw with, not something else).

I agree, but I suspect the real culprit is the X image model, which
deals with pixel-level coordinates for describing screen positions and
sizes. A resolution-independant model would avoid this, but it's
probably too late ...

poc