bug#31702:

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:25:28 -0300
> 
> All in all I'm not sure how to feel about this issue. Despite the
> external inconsistency emacs is internally coherent and, according to
> what I described in my second comment, I would say it's selecting a
> more accurate effective height than the desktop. But, anyway, the
> inconsistency is annoying and it's not even possible to get the same
> font from the resources file since the size/height granularity is less
> than the one offered by emacs face specification.

Then maybe you can convince the developers of the desktop to follow
Emacs's example ;-)