QWidget has the exact opposite problem. Layouts, styles and rendering happens
in pixel units while fonts are sized in point size. This is also a problem when
moving between platfoms as the pixelsize of a point has a different definition
on each platform. When running widgets on a hidpi screen, the fonts are usually
huge compared to spacing, lines and icons. In addition to looking quite ugly it
easily breaks the layout scheme set up by the application because the text
takes up too much space.
As long as one sticks to one unit type through the application everything is
fine. Mixing leads to problems.
Just thinking out loud:
Sticking to pixels makes it possible for the application developer to make the
right decision based on what he/she wants to achieve. Layout out relative to
millimeters can quite easily be done by providing supporting logic in Qt.
If we added conversion functions for inch(), cm(), mm(), points() to
QQuickItem, it could look up its current window/screen object and figure out
the relationship between each unit for the screen the item is on and just set
that. The app can then layout in the unit space it prefers with information
readily available.
Text {
font.pixelSize: cm(0.5);
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.margins: cm(0.25);
}
Making them functions makes it impossible to listen for screen changes which in
turn trigger dpi changes so they would have to be properties...
Text {
font.pixelSize: 0.5 * cm;
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.margins: 0.25 * cm;
}
The properties would look up the item's window and then the screen and do the
calculation from there so no extra memory for each item to store the
properties. And since they don't change all that often, the added calculation
is a negligible overhead. When the item is not associated with a window, it
will have to use the OS definition of a point instead, usually 72 or 96.
Just an idea.
-
Gunnar
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Thiago Macieira [thiago.macie...@intel.com]
Sendt: 3. desember 2013 18:09
To: development@qt-project.org
Emne: Re: [Development] OpenGL drivers
On terça-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2013 10:27:24, Thomas Hartmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we really should think about introducing em or percent for font sizes.
>
> But non pixel size fonts create a lot of problems for complex layouts.
QWidget has worked with that for 15 years, so I don't accept that as an
excuse. We have anchor layouts in Qt Quick, which are a lot more powerful than
the grids and spacers that we used in QWidget.
Desktop support does not require pixel perfection. It does require scaling
over widely different resolutions and DPIs, though -- from 1366x768 to
3200x1800, for example.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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