Re: Proposal: clean way of animating windows to/from system tray icons

2015-09-08 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:51:48 -0400 ร‰ric Tremblay wrote: > As for wayland, i don't know enough about it, but i would imagine it > would be trivial to adapt this simple mechanism to wayland. Hi, well, there are a few of fundamental issues: 1. Wayland/desktop does not have a global coordinate sy

Re: Separate X Screens - possible on Intel Integrated HD Graphics?

2016-01-15 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:35:48 -0500 Ken Taylor wrote: > Good morning and pardon me if this is a dead end question. I have seen > some references to it in the archives including a couple of responses > from Intel folks saying NO. The most recent was dated 2011 so I am > hoping the answer may h

Re: Pixels Per Inch needs to be standardized ๐Ÿ”

2016-05-04 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 4 May 2016 17:44:51 +0200 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > As a result of the conversation had at > (https://developer.blender.org/T48292) Hi, too bad the discussion does not explain why you need the ppi, or what it would be used for. There are many uses for ppi that people think are pr

Re: Pixels Per Inch needs to be standardized ๐Ÿ”

2016-05-05 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 5 May 2016 03:24:29 +0200 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Pekka Paalanen: > > too bad the discussion does not explain why you need the ppi, or > > what it would be used for. > > What I am asking for is a standard way to advertise the desktop scale >

Re: Pixels Per Inch needs to be standardized ๐Ÿ”

2016-05-06 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 5 May 2016 15:33:48 +0200 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Pekka Paalanen: > > each wl_output (usually represents a single monitor) has an integer > > scale factor associated. > > Thank you, this seems what I was talking about. > > You know if is there

Re: Bypass events and get the physical keyboard state directly

2017-02-20 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:37:36 +1300 Bryan Baldwin wrote: > Okay, so further investigation has lead me to test code against evdev > directly. Nevermind ;) But if you run under any kind of display server (windowing system), that won't usually work at all, or works wrong. That is also why any kind

Re: Bypass events and get the physical keyboard state directly

2017-02-20 Thread Pekka Paalanen
the door for keyloggers). Display servers often use logind DBus API to open input devices to avoid running as root, but I believe logind would refuse your game if a display server was also active at the same time. Thanks, pq > On 02/20/2017 09:20 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Mon, 2

Re: Bypass events and get the physical keyboard state directly

2017-02-21 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:19:27 +1300 Bryan Baldwin wrote: > Yup, the encryption was an automagickal client mistake. > > And I understand all your points, and don't disagree with the > security model. I just don't think that the people and the software > that are assuming responsibility for system

Re: Current state of DPI settings under X

2017-07-25 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:15:31 +0300 Vladimir Kudrya wrote: > Hi all! > > I would like to know the current 'proper' way of setting DPI in X (if > there is any). > I see conflicting information on the topic, and different applications > seem to have different source of this setting. I currently c

Re: Current state of DPI settings under X

2017-07-26 Thread Pekka Paalanen
age with a single global scaling factor at any time. :-) Thanks, pq > 2017-07-26 09:52, Pekka Paalanen ะฟะธัˆะตั‚: > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:15:31 +0300 > > Vladimir Kudrya wrote: > > > >> Hi all! > >> > >> I would like to know the current 'pr

[RFC wayland-protocols] Add contribution guidelines for desktop extensions

2018-02-22 Thread Pekka Paalanen
From: Pekka Paalanen I have the feeling that we would benefit from a documented process on how to propose cross-desktop extensions. Right now, contributors may send a proposal to wayland-devel list only, be met with complete silence, and walk away frustrated. I believe it is wrong to expect

Re: Specifying sensible device types to use an application on in the desktop file

2020-10-12 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:46:31 +0200 Marco Martin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:17 PM Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > So within AppStream, apps will highly likely in addition to defining > > their user input methods also be able to set preferred screen sizes > > with an upper and lower limit. > >

Video standards

2024-03-28 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:45:00 -0300 salsaman wrote: > ISTR that the xdg video standards were never defined, If you need any > advice or assistance with this, I would be happy to act in an > advisory capacity if that is called for. I have over 20 years experience of > developing Free Software video

Re: Video standards

2024-04-03 Thread Pekka Paalanen
;> etc > >>> > >>> xdg_gamma_linear > >>> xdg_gamma_sRGB > >>> > >>> xdg_video_width > >>> xdg_video_height > >>> > >>> I could provide a more full list, but I think if it goes along this > >&g

Re: Video standards

2024-04-04 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 21:51:39 -0300 salsaman wrote: > Regarding my expertise, I was one of the developers most involved in > developing the "livido" standard which was one of the main topics of the > Piksel Festivals held in Bergen, Norway. > In the early days (2004 - 2006) the focus of the annual

Re: Video standards

2024-04-05 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 17:13:40 -0300 salsaman wrote: > Hi, > the problem with the drm.h header is, it is complicated, still needs > interpretation, and it lacks some commonly used formats, (e.g YUVAp) They accept additions, if the additions serve userspace interoperability. There is no requirem

Re: Video standards

2024-04-05 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:28:27 -0300 salsaman wrote: > I don't think you are paying enough attention to the main points. Ir is not > simply a case of extending the fourcc values to include more. If I didn't > make it clear enough, the whole fourcc system is obscure, inadequate, > ambiguous. The only

Re: Video standards

2024-04-08 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 19:16:55 -0300 salsaman wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 12:57, Pekka Paalanen > wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:28:27 -0300 > > salsaman wrote: > > > > > I don't think you are paying enough attention to the main points. Ir is &

Re: Video standards

2024-05-03 Thread Pekka Paalanen
> we can chat in private off the mailing list. > Sorry from my behalf as well, I've been spread too thin lately. > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 08:42, Pekka Paalanen > wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 19:16:55 -0300 > > salsaman wrote: > > > > > On