Re: widget size independant to screen resolution

Paul Bonser wrote:
> There are many times where I will want to watch a window, but don't
> need it to be full size, like a download window or when I'm doing an
> emerge or something. It'd be nice to scale the window down a bit, so I
> can keep an eye on it without taking up too much of my precious screen
> real estate.

To give a reasonable impression of an active 1/4 size 600x400 pixel 
terminal (this is smaller then a gnome-terminal on my machine) in 
real-time would have a prohibitive CPU cost.  Non real-time would look crap.

> It could also be used for completely pointless eye-candy, of
> course...which always attracts people to things :P

Really?  _Pointless_ eye-candy deters me.

Phil