Bug#457564: gnome-control-center: fonts too big after the upgrade!

[gpe]

Le Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:03:47 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> a écrit:

> On dim, 2007-12-23 at 18:33 +0100, gpe92 wrote:
> > Package: gnome-control-center
> > Version: 1:2.20.1-2
> > Followup-For: Bug #457564
> > 
> > With the last version the fonts appear too big on one of my PC and
> > normal on another one.
> > The PC on which the fonts appear normal has a screen resolution of
> > 96 dpi. The other one (fonts too big) has a screen resolution of 113 dpi.
> > So it seems that the screen resolution is no longer taken in account with
> > this gnome-control-center version in opposition to the previous one (2.18).
> 
> This is exactly the opposite: the screen resolution, that used to be
> ignored by GDM and forced to 96 DPI, is now correctly taken into
> account.
> 
> If the screen resolution is wrongly detected, this may be a bug in the X
> server, but most probably the behavior you are describing is expected:
> the fonts used to look smaller or bigger than what they should, and now
> they have the correct size you have to fix your font settings.
> 

Moreover, with the behavior of Gnome 2.20 if you'll plug two monitors on
the same PC but with two different screen resolution the fonts will appear
with a different size. For me it's a very bad behavior...

gpe