Re: Multi DPI user interface

2016-07-20 Thread Brett Sutton
Sorry, I'm well out of my depth here, but there we references to HiDPI which prompted my email. To my naive eye HiDPI appeared to be a temporary hack to get around the real problem of font scaling. So the logic was, if HiDPI is being talked about, then perhaps this area of the system may impac

Re: Multi DPI user interface

2016-07-20 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:36:11AM +1000, Brett Sutton wrote: > Can I suggest that as this work is done you keep in mind (what I hope) is > the long term objective to provide correct dpi scaling. Font scaling is out of scope for what is discussed here. This is simply about integer framebuffer scal

Re: Multi DPI user interface

2016-07-20 Thread Brett Sutton
Can I suggest that as this work is done you keep in mind (what I hope) is the long term objective to provide correct dpi scaling. e.g. a 10 point font should measure 10/72 of an inch regardless of the resolution or physical size of a monitor. I may (as an end user) want to then apply differen

Re: Multi DPI user interface

2016-07-20 Thread Jonas Ådahl
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:27:20PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 23:23 +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > > > > > Well, 3 options with the other one being to have "A" and "B" content > > be > > placed in individual files, i.e. Screenshot - 2016-07-19 - 12:34 - > > LVDS1.png and Sc

Re: Multi DPI user interface

2016-07-20 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 23:23 +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > > Well, 3 options with the other one being to have "A" and "B" content > be > placed in individual files, i.e. Screenshot - 2016-07-19 - 12:34 - > LVDS1.png and Screenshot - 2016-07-19 - 12:34 - HDMI1.png, each one > with > their correct res