On 13 May 2011 06:05, Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > mccrocai wrote: > >> That's not true. >> DPI is not only used by font size, but also by image size and ther >> things.... >> >> You don't want you 300DPI screen display *tiny tiny font*, will you? >> >> By designing the protocol *DPI aware*, and force the application deal >> with the DPI natively, we get better user experience. > > I think I didn't explain the problem right. I agree that it would be nice if > programs were DPI-aware. > > The problem is that the idiots doing both X and windows built in > DPI-awareness to only *PART* of the graphics api. Font sizes were chosen in > "points". EVERY OTHER GRAPHIC was measured in pixels. > > A graphics api where everything is measured in points (ie paying attention > to the DPI) would make sense. One where everything is measured in pixels > would also make sense. But this combination is a stupid idea and we are > paying for it today with the inability to scale graphics.
In Wyland everything is measured in pixels, Wayland has no fonts. Problem solved. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel