[Lazarus] Fonts Advise between Windows & Linux

zeljko at holobit.net zeljko at holobit.net
Mon Apr 14 11:06:04 CEST 2008


Quoting Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:

> zeljko at holobit.net wrote:
>>
>> Don't forget that many new distros are trying to standardize dpi's
>> (96,120) etc ... with gtk or qt2 (K3) you have to force dpi to 96 (best
>> results), but with qt4 not.
>
> It is very bad design which started with Microsoft to force all monitors
> to 96 dpi. X-Window servers are 100% correct in querying the monitor for
> the best dpi value. Native dpi values should also give the user a better
> visual experience. The GUI toolkits are supposed to handle the various
> dpi settings without developer intervention, but most don't, and simply
> rely on the hard-coded 96 dpi value. 10 out of 10 for Qt4, if they
> manage this correctly!

yes they are. Font expirience is excellent with qt4 compared with qt3  
and especially compared with qt2. qt4 doesn't use xfs so there's big  
diff.Think that latest gtk2 also doesn't take care of xfs.
My test projects with lcl-qt4 looks same on linux, win32 and mac.




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