Re: Absolute font sizes

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 19:30 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 16:59 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:02 +0100, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> > > > Hey Behdad,
> > > 
> > > Hey Kris,
> > > 
> > > > We noticed this week that nothing in GTK+ currently checks whether the 
> > > > font size returned by pango_font_description_get_size() is absolute or not.
> > > 
> > > This is a very unfortunate side effect of the fact that absolute size
> > > was added in a much later version than normal sizes.  And indeed a
> > > horrible API design choice to add
> > > pango_font_description_get_size_is_absolute() instead of
> > > pango_font_description_get_absolute_size().
> > 
> > And .. how would you implement the latter? :-)
> 
> Make size and absolute_size two separate fields.  Setting one will unset
> the other.

How would that be better then the current setup? 

						- Owen