Open Kekun opened 2 months ago
Target logical DPI for laptops is something that's ultimately going to be DE-specific.
Anyway, for Mutter and thus GNOME you can find the target values here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/blob/422ee451/src/backends/meta-monitor.c#L1845-1867
I have devices with DPIs imperfect for integer scaling, Dippi helps me to know that but it doesn't help me know what scaling is the best for that device, even if that means using fractional scaling which isn't perfectly supported yet.
I'd love to see the Very Low DPI, Fairly Low DPI, Potentially Problematic, Fairly High DPI and Very High DPI messages be more usful and less judgmental of my otherwise perfectly fine hardware.
E.g. I have a laptop with a 14" 3840×2160 screen, Dippi tells me its 314 DPI is fairly high, it's 16:9 and it's equivalent to 1920×1080@2x. What I'd love for Dippi to tell me in such a case is:
Of course GNOME doesn't officially support fractional scaling yet, but this isn't just about GNOME nor Linux.