On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 20:49 +0200, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > On 9/8/05, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The way I see it, you would always have only one item, which just > > happens to draw more stuff if zoom level allows it. Or you could have a > > single item but with items inside, as sub-items, that are made visible > > at some point. But in the latter case all items are grouped together > > and only a single "group item" is exposed to the parent layout > > container. > > > > In both cases, the effective size of an item could change a bit > > depending on zoom level. If these size changes cause layout instability > > or not, I don't know. Depends on the layout algorithm, I suppose. > > ... > > In my mind, the size of the "swappable" container, that has multiple > sets of children should be constant. > http://pippin.gimp.org/zpim/draft.png is one simple kind of zoomable > interface that could be realized that would benefit from such > "rendering termination".
Yes. This is what i mean by allowing different rendering depending on the zoom level, but not allowing "geometry changes". > I don't think font hinting should be allowed to force relayouts nor > rehyphenation either. I agree, and there are several ways to handle this. See http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/grid-fitting/ for examples. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's a bookish drug-addicted rock star on his last day in the job. She's a disco-crazy impetuous vampire from Mars. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
