Re: High resolution LCD display quest.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:47:11 +0100, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:

I think you misunderstood the OP: He doesn't request something
technologically impossible. In fact, the technology he wants has
been around for years: Mediocre sized (19" e.g.) TFT panels,
that have 1920x1400 pixels resolution, e.g.

Take my Laptop for example: That one has a 1400x1050, 15" TFT
screen. OTOH, next to that there's a 17" Desktop TFT with merely
1280x1024 pixels. Had I thrown in a few bucks more, I'd have got
a 19" TFT instead, but that one would've had 1280x1024 pixels,
too.

My guess is, that we have to "thank" Microsoft Windows for that.
That stupid OS is unable to scale UI fonts to the physical
dimension. It's always 9 pixels high and I think people were
just complaining, that the fonts on their screen become too
small to read, if they connect a high resolution TFT to it. You
can of course switch to a "high resolution" mode, where bigger
fonts are used, but 90% of the applications will then be
unusable, as all UI elements have been placed by the pixel, and
not flexible layout containers, like we are used to use in GTK
or Qt, thus resulting in clipped text, or overdrawn controls.

I thought that too; but then what happens in laptops? Are they usable
with high resolution screens because the user is assumed to be close
to the screen?
.

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