>From what I heard in the desktop meeting and from what Marc mentions it
sounds like the Gnome font dialog isn't actually using pts but something
else entirely. This probably can't be fixed properly for Jaunty but long
term it should be using pts and using them properly being 1 pt == 1/72"
and should be the same physical size on all displays with DPI set
correctly.

Otherwise what was the point in setting DPI correctly to begin with?

Now the bit about font sizes being different for different classes of
display is a real issue and should be addressed at some point. There are
at least 3 classes of displays, laptops, hdtvs, and regular desktop
monitors. The 3 classes exist due to differences in dpi and viewing
distance from the screen, both of which affect the usable font size
range. laptops typically have much higher DPI (~ 100-150dpi) than
desktop monitors (~ 80-100dpi) which in turn have much higher DPI than
HDTVs (~ 30-80dpi). You sit closer to laptops than either other class of
display as well. Also since HDTVs DPI is so low you have to have a
larger size font just be able to have enough pixels in the font to be
usable.

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Default font size too large if using native DPI
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