Re: Resolution Independence in Gnome

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:47 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:
> With all of the blue-sky talk about Gnome 3, whatever that may be, I've 
> been wondering about resolution independence in Gnome.

The thing that will get us closest to being resolution-independent is to
make spacing in GTK+ not be based on pixels:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101859

Then we have to figure out other things.  We support SVG icons, but the
mmap()ed icon cache does not store SVG data.  Also, this implies
rendering each icon for each process that wants to use it, instead of
using a precomputed raster version.  Whether this is a performance
problem remains to be seen, but cairo/svg is not performant yet.  It is
a problem of memory consumption, since you cannot share the pixels
between process.

  Federico