Comment 26 for bug 1500282

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In , Gijskruitbosch+bugs (gijskruitbosch+bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Karl Tomlinson (ni?:karlt) from comment #21)
> (In reply to Panos Astithas [:past] from comment #20)
>
> Not as is, but I'd be happy to take a patch for a 1.5 step, even though Mac
> and GTK do not, because, at that level, I expect the benefits start to
> out-weigh the flaws, and WINNT does this.
>
> Would that help your situation?
> What are your Gdk/WindowScalingFactor and DPI values?
>
> The DPI from GDK is a font scaling dpi. Users do not expect small changes to
> trigger blurry icons and UI, ugly tabs, etc.
>
> Also, Gecko does not provide a good way for authors to supply pixel-accurate
> bitmaps at arbitrary sizes.

I think these concerns were already addressed in comment #18. Linux should be consistent with Windows here. As already pointed out, WINNT supports close-to-arbitrary sizes, so clamping to 1.5 doesn't do that. Please can you reconsider this decision?