Re: Multi DPI user interface

[Brett Sutton <bsutton noojee com au>]

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 different scaling to each monitor.

The current system where a 10 point font is a different size on each 
monitor makes no sense.

Brett

On 20/07/16 22:27, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 23:23 +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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 resolution
> As Christian mentioned, the 4th option is to pass on that data on "raw"
> (along with metadata such as the scaling factor), and let the "front-
> ends" deal with it.
>
> For gnome-settings-daemon's screenshot functionality, we'd probably
> stitch the screenshots together either as per option #1 or #2 but more
> involved screenshotting tools could offer different options.
>
> In short, don't bake the end-user application design choices into the
> API for this.
>
> On that note, relying on the cursor position is as bad an idea as it
> ever was with touchscreens, or for when we implement the "presentation"
> screen mode (which is inaccessible for anything but display).
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