Carlos Garnacho wrote: > Hello!, > > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 17:11 +0200, Sven Herzberg wrote: > >> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> >>> There is something which bothers me though. Support for some units, >>> points for example, would require floating points measures. And I >>> suspect we don't want to do layout in floating point (instability >>> issues). Mozilla converts css units in twips (an arbitrary integer >>> unit, 1/20 of a point). That's a way to go about it I guess, though it >>> requires conversions it in the canvas items. Better ideas? >>> >> This is a very important aspect, right. Especially with the upcoming >> *resolution independence* in MacOS X, people will start requesting this >> feature in GTK+ as well. So we should really add resolution independence >> to the feature list. This would at least satisfy the request for >> increasing widget spacing if the resolution increases (so we can have >> something like "1mm" between widgets). >> > > Sadly, I see a some problems here: > > 1) We don't control the hardware our software is running on. >
So, where's this a problem? > 2) Broken X servers reporting bad dpi values, relying just on > modern/non-broken servers doesn't look very attractive either... > There are also broken flatpanels that report broken sizes. But this is not a big deal if the user has got an easy way of specifying the correct resolution. > 3) I bet there's still lots of people with 800x600 (or worse) screens > So what? The resolution independence will improve the situation for them, because 1mm will be less pixels on the same display with 800x600 (compared to 1024x768). Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list