Dan Kegel : winecfg: Restrict dpi slider to sane values.

[John Klehm]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> wrote:
>  >  >  >  URL:    http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=faaccca59be08be547ec4e1948b6306eff3808a2
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Author: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
>  >  >  >  Date:   Tue Apr 22 17:56:36 2008 -0700
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  winecfg: Restrict dpi slider to sane values.
>  >  >
>
> >  >  Dan, this basically reverted commit
>  >  >  0110512904d9c646abef416819a057c06d3f2c97, which bumped MAXDPI from 160
>  >  >  to 480 because some users specifically requested the ability for
>  >  >  higher DPI settings.
>  >  >
>  >  >  I think we need to decide what we want and stop the tug-o-war.
>  >
>  >  Please see bug 9715.
>
>  480 was completely unusable; average Joes were setting it
>  at random and were unable to use winecfg to reset it to
>  something sane.
>
>  I found a few monitors out there at 200 dpi, so perhaps that would
>  be a reasonable upper limit, but we'd have to check to make sure that
>  the average person with a crap monitor could set that to 200dpi,
>  realize it was wrong, and set it back without having to edit
>  the registry by hand.
>  - Dan
>
>
>

Why not wizardify it?  "Enter the physical size of your screen: x
in/cm y in/cm"  Then use appropriate dpi based on current resolution?
Does it not work like that?

--John