Re: widget size independant to screen resolution

I like this idea very much.  Of course it still may be necessary to specify a 
more fixed size or over ride this type of positioning/sizing.

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> sorry to break radio silence :-), I hope Y wakes up some time soon.
> 
> The reason I'm writing is to express my desire for all graphical 
> environments. Unfortunately this feature is not fully implemented 
> anywhere (to my knowledge) but I'd love to see it in the window server 
> of the future ;-).
> 
> In a few words what I want is that widget size should be independant to 
> screen resolution.
>     Actually, by saying widget I mean everything drawn on screen: menus, 
> buttons, toolbars, tasbar, window margins, borders, title bars e.t.c., 
> even common text.
>     And by saying independant to screen resolution I certainly don't 
> expect everything to have the same size in every screen at every 
> resolution. What I consider fairly easy is drawing everything like now, 
> with default size, but giving the user an option using a slider to 
> change the "widget size". When changing this variable everything 
> mentioned before should change size alltogether.
> 
> As for the implementation, the general idea is to multiply the 
> dimensions of everything drawn on screen (e.g. font size) with a float 
> variable, initially set to 1 and changed with the previous slider. There 
> is a problem with the graphics inside widgets, but can be solved either 
> using exlusively scalable graphics, or bitmaps properly resized.
> 
> The usefulness is obvious to whoever hates giantic widgets (desktops 
> like kindergarden :-) ) and is stuck with a low-res TFT.
> 
> 
> I see this as an opportunity to creative discussion so please comment on 
> my idea while waiting the new Y to erupt...
> 
> Thank you,
> Dimitris
> 
> 


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