Re: Gtk::Window resize grip replacement

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On 15 May 2015 at 12:33, Stefan Salewski <mail ssalewski de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 20:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > Client-side decorated windows when running under a compositor have 5
> > pixels around the border
>
> Interesting.
>
> I wonder if these pixel design works well with ultra-HD and 4k displays?

In an HiDPI case, the sizing of all windowing surface is scaled by an
integer factor; this includes borders, both visible and invisible.

> I am going to buy a 27 or 28 inch display with 3840*2048 points, and
> later a 17 inch notebook with this resolution. Surely fine for reading
> PDF papers, but I have some bad feeling about usability of GUI toolkits.

You shouldn't. We've been working on HiDPI displays for the past two years:

  https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/06/28/hidpi-support-in-gnome/

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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