Re: Specifying sensible device types to use an application on in the desktop file

Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:30:49 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.xdg.devel
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:46:31 +0200
Marco Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:17 PM Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So within AppStream, apps will highly likely in addition to defining
> > their user input methods also be able to set preferred screen sizes
> > with an upper and lower limit.  
> 
> pixels or millimeters? (would prefer the second)

Hi,

the thread referred to here might be interesting as well:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2020-October/041637.html

"Re-thinking DPI and scaling (Re: Physical vs logical DPI on X)"

TL;DR: pixel resolution ignores the physical screen size but limits how
small details can be rendered, DPI ignores the viewing distance meaning
that you don't actually know if something n millimeters high is legible
or not even at infinite pixel resolution.

Then add systems with heterogeneous outputs. Also accessibility for
people with poor eye-sight (maybe somehow factor in user interface
scaling?).

Thanks,
pq

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