I don't understand what all the talk is about when discussing whether it should be up to the compositor or app to set a window's position.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 2:30 PM Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 17:21, Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 9:20 PM Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > > > No, they are about position too. 100,100 on a 1920x1080 resolution is > about 5% > > > to the right of the left edge and 10% from the top. 100,100 on > 3840x2160 is > > > 2.5% from the left and 5% from the top, on the same monitor. The user > has a > > > right to expect the same finger-width position on the screen, relative > to where > > > their eyes are looking at. > > > > No, they are not. > > It should be up to the application to decide the coordinate system > PPI/DPI/etc. > > This is why there is no value in this discussion. You are making > assertions like this as if they are axiomatic. > > It would be possible to redesign Wayland following the principles you > have described. No-one is doing this, however. We have carefully > considered the points you have raised over the past 14 years and > reached different conclusions. I'm sorry that Wayland is not the > perfect window system you envisage in your own head, but just > repeating your same beliefs that the design is fundamentally flawed > over and over, will not force us to change the design. >
