On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 20:33, Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:06 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:


> That isn't to say that the default which has been selected is correct.
> It seems correct to me but perhaps you are seeing some kind of
> DPI-related scaling issue which is making 11pt quite incorrect. (You
> should be at 96 DPI and some xdpyinfo output might be helpful here.)

The native DPI of one of my laptops is 221 (Sony Vaio P) and the other
is 140 (Vaio Z). Needless to say, 11pt at 96dpi looks fairly uselessly
tiny on both. Assuming 96dpi seems rather the contrary of all the other
design decisions in GNOME 3 - assuming brokenness and accommodating it,
rather than 'doing the right thing' for the long term.

And what do you have the X server report when you plug said laptops in to external monitors or projectors? It's not even remotely a trivial problem to solve...