Re: GtkCanvas requirements?

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> There is something which bothers me though. Support for some units,
> points for example, would require floating points measures. And I
> suspect we don't want to do layout in floating point (instability
> issues). Mozilla converts css units in twips (an arbitrary integer
> unit, 1/20 of a point). That's a way to go about it I guess, though it
> requires conversions it in the canvas items. Better ideas?

This is a very important aspect, right. Especially with the upcoming
*resolution independence* in MacOS X, people will start requesting this
feature in GTK+ as well. So we should really add resolution independence
to the feature list. This would at least satisfy the request for
increasing widget spacing if the resolution increases (so we can have
something like "1mm" between widgets).


Regards,
  Sven