Re: Pixels Per Inch needs to be standardized 🔍

Thu May 5 01:24:29 UTC 2016

Pekka Paalanen:
> too bad the discussion does not explain why you need the ppi, or
> what it would be used for.

What I am asking for is a standard way to advertise the desktop scale 
factor. And it does not necessarily need to be about pixel density, it 
just could be a multiplier like x1.5 or x2.

Pekka Paalanen:
 > Or, how would a DE know which ppi it needs to advertise at a time?

One scale factor per screen.

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