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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Thursday 24 August 2006 23:07 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> __/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Thursday 24 August 2006 20:00 \__
>>>
>>>>
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>>>> In Windows XP, there's an OS level utility called "Magnifier" which
>>>> will
>>>> magnifiy any portion of the screen, and so individual programs don't need
>>>> to implement magnifiers themselves. I'd be extremely surprised if Linux
>>>> doesn't offer a similar utility, especially since XGL would make this
>>>> trivially easy to implement. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw screen
>>>> magnification occur in one of the XGL videos Roy posted.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSn-jBA3CE
>>>
>>> It comes towards the end, IIRC. Not one of the most exciting features,
>>> unless you are near-sighted.
>>>
>>
>> It is one of those features I never use. In KDE, it is KMag
>
> That's just what I thought.I know about KMagnifier and used it before. I
> wonder if Microsoft's software does some rerendering of the fonts so that
> pixel magnification does not result in coarse text. If not, then it all just
> pure FUD. Either way, it's definitely FUD. Fortunately, the significant of
> this Mass. 'affair' is the influence it had on the rest of the world,
> notably west Europe and India.
>
>
xmag was the standard x item; it's been around since long before
windows xp existed.
The windows "magnifier" is yet another example of MS "innovating" what's
in X.
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