Bug#502586: gnome-settings-daemon: Should support using X DPI value rather than /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-1
Severity: normal

On almost all of my systems, X properly detects the size of the
display and calculates the DPI.  For the few systems where it doesn't,
I've manually specified DisplaySize in /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that X
knows the correct DPI.  However, gnome-settings-daemon ignores this
value, and instead uses the gconf key
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi to determine the DPI of the display
and size fonts appropriately.  Thus, on all of my systems, *including*
those which correctly autodetect the DPI, I have to manually fix the
DPI in GNOME to get appropriately sized fonts.  gnome-settings-daemon
should support using the DPI value from X, rather than overriding it.
Ideally it should do so by default so that it Just Works on many
systems, but I'll settle for an "unbreak my DPI" setting if I have to.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0          0.2.6-7           Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-15            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3          Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.22.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomekbd2           2.22.0-1          GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.20-1         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.20-1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12          3.5-2             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-4     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.3-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxxf86misc1          1:1.0.1-3         X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

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