[Development] Revisiting high-DPI configuration options

Samuel Stirtzel s.stirtzel at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 21 15:24:03 CEST 2016


2016-06-21 14:15 GMT+02:00 Shawn Rutledge <Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io>:
>
>> On 20 Jun 2016, at 18:09, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>> 160x90 mm is a valid screen size, correspoding to a 7.2" monitor.
>
> Of course, it’s just suspicious (being a fallback value, apparently), but not impossible.

Unfortunately it's not a fallback value, instead TV manufacturers
commonly only set the aspect ratio (in cm) because one EDID for all
devices is cheaper.
See bullet point d of Adam Jacksons mail about the EDID -> DPI topic:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157671.html


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Regards
Samuel



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