Re: widget size independant to screen resolution

On 19 Oct 2004, at 18:39, Phil wrote:

> 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.

This is what a GPU is for. Nearly all computers have them nowadays, and 
we can disable this functionality or accept that it will be slow on 
computers without a GPU.

How do you think Apple's Expose feature works? Note that you don't get 
this feature (at full speed anyway) if you don't have Quartz Extreme 
(graphics acceleration on the desktop).

Lincoln Quirk