Re: Proposal for UI scaling

2015-08-24 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Per display is kind of right, but it also varies per surface (depending on which display it's mostly on). We already have a "DPI" attribute per surface that's not fully wired up. My thought was to add a "scale" attribute next to that, so that anyone probing the DPI of a surface will get (displ

Re: Proposal for UI scaling

2015-08-24 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Gerry Boland wrote: Hey folks, chatting with the UITK guys, they need support for UI scaling (i.e. grid unit value) per display. I think adding a scale parameter to Mir would make sense for this. I've written up a proposal here, please have a look and see wha