149434 - Implement Preferences GUI for browser.display.screen_resolution

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Greg K.]

Users should have the ability to specify the actual DPI of their screen, as they
are able to do in Mozilla. This results in better-scaled fonts.

Comment 1

[saari (gone)]

eh, just default it to 96 and be done with it

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Is this really so hard? Setting this is the only way to accurately transfer
real-world CSS units like in and cm to the screen. My screen isn't 96 DPI, so my
browser shouldn't assume it is.

Comment 3

[saari (gone)]

What DPI is your screen? Horizonally? Vertically?

It isn't hard, it is just "one more thing" and we're on a very tight schedule

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

I'm at 103 horizontally. Don't know, vertically. 103 is just different enough to
make a difference sometimes in font size.

Of course, I'm of the opinion that this setting belongs at the OS level, and
monitors should measure themselves. Blue sky. Until that happens, browsers need
to let users set it.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

I should point out that, if this doesn't get GUI Preferences visibility, it
should still be settable in user.js. As I recall, setting it that way has no
effect on Chimera at this time.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over to simon (with his permission).

Comment 7

[S Woodside]

What's wrong with changing the font size in Prefs?

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Actually, testing Chimera/2002090913, browser.display.screen_resolution now
seems to work the same as Mozilla (though wrongly in both). I guess we just need
the Preferences GUI.

(For example, at 103 DPI, a 1in box isn't 103px square. Can't find the bug just
now...)

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I disagree on the GUI option. If this works via user.js (can someone confirm in
a recent build?), let's WONTFIX this.

Greg, can you check this in a recent build?

Comment 10

[Greg K.]

Verifying since there will be an OS-level GUI for this.