Re: A proposal for units in GTK+

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:05, Calum Benson wrote:

>   Appendix B then has 80 pages of pictures of Pointers, Icons, Controls, 
>   etc. using "points" as the unit of interest. There is a note that, in 
>   most cases, the displays/CRTs used will have 72 pixels per inch making 1 
>   pixel == 1 point.
> 
> Java also still specifies everything in pixels, so that's no help :)

And another Sun bod just pointed out, as long sizes are handled
relatively within gtk, there are actually probably few if any spacings
that hackers should be allowed to mess with at all-- everything should
just be the right size and correctly-spaced in the first place :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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