[Trac #496] wrong size fonts

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#496: wrong size fonts
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 Reporter:  mlj                        |        Owner:  blizzard
     Type:  defect                     |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal                     |    Milestone:  BTest-2 
Component:  distro                     |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  fonts display readability  |  
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Changes (by jg):

  * owner:  mlj => blizzard
  * component:  display => distro

Comment:

 I currently have the physical size reported by X set to as close to
 reality as I can.  Due to rounding, we report 201 dpi to clients.

 GTK+ seems to "do the right thing" with this information, as far as I
 could tell (if you specify points, rather than pixels); gecko's rendering
 engine does not.  Whether we are better off lying or not is an interesting
 question: but then we won't see where the problems are and will get other
 issues when moving between screens of different sizes (e.g. use of Sugar
 on conventional Linux systems).

 Various other items (such as matchbox) need some TLC and should be easy.

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