Menu/List fonts honor Xft.dpi, graph fonts do not

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sun Feb 10 15:01:42 PST 2013


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So I think we should change the depth markers to 12 pixels, and then
> perhaps have something like
>
>                 /* For blind people */
>                 if (get_screen_dpi() > 150)
>                         plot_scale *= 2;
>
> in plot_set_scale() (in the "case SC_SCREEN" case) which should make
> the text be drawn in double size for people who have set their screen
> DPI to a big value.
>
> Hmm?

.. and here's an actual patch if somebody wants to try this out.

               Linus
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