How is this proposal affected by the DPI chosen by the user for system
fonts? On Vista 96 and 120 DPI are available by default, though the user
can set a wide variety of custom sizes under the “Custom …” dialog.
Changing the DPI on Vista from 96 to 120 DPI is detected by Java. The size of the default fonts are larger, though still small compared to other applications.
However. the DPI change on Vista doesn’t just increase the font size, it scales the whole screen, so you lose a large portion of your screen real estate. Unlike on XP where you keep the same screen resolution, but all the fonts just get bigger.