Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop (omgubuntu.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday June 6, 2017 @11:20AM from the working-together dept.

An anonymous reader shares an article: Canonical is playing host to a 'fractional scaling hackfest' in its Taipei offices this week. Both GNOME developers and Ubuntu developers are in attendance, ready to wrestle with the aim: improve GNOME HiDPI support. Ubuntu's Unity desktop (I'm told, anyhow) plays fairly nice with high DPI monitors because the shell supports fractional scaling (though most apps, I believe, do not). Furthermore, users can tweak some high DPI settings to better suit their display(s). GNOME Shell also supports HiDPI monitors, but has, until now, been a little less flexible about it. "Currently, we only allow to scale windows by integral factors (typically 2). This proves somewhat limiting as there are many systems that are just in between the dpi ranges that are good for scale factor 2, or unscaled," the hackfest page explains.

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Re: GNOME had this by jbernardo · 2017-06-06 20:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

The only explanation is in the commit - https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=bdf0820c501437a2150d8ff0d5340246e713f73f
Instead of testing to see if the DPI values were non-zero, the developer just decided to force 96 DPI fully ignoring the detected values.
I won't comment on the developer's abilities, I think that commit speaks for itself
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