Thanks for the response :) On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:43:19 +1100 Daniel Kasak <[email protected]> > said: > > > Greetings. > > > > Now that everything is composited, would I be crazy to ask for the > ability > > to scale windows? Use cases: > > > > 1) I like playing wizball ( C64 game ) with my son. People around my age > > might remember it. Some genius wrote a Windows version that works > perfectly > > in wine. But it runs at around 648x480. I'd prefer to not have to change > my > > desktop to be 640x480 to be able to play it nicely. > > > > 2) Some people have tiny monitors, and my fat-arsed apps don't fit on > their > > screen. It would be good if they could 'zoom out' to see the whole window > > at once. > > > > 3) Similar to above - dealing with projectors that only run at 1024x768, > > etc. > > > > I guess there are challenges with things like mouse inputs, that would > also > > have to be 'scaled' appropriately. But it would be ultra-cool :) > > > > Maybe it would be easier to implement just scaling the entire display at > > once? I'd be happy with that at this point ... eg hit some key and spin > the > > mouse wheel to zoom into whatever I'm pointing at. > > this isn't possible in x11 due to not being able to redirect/intercept > input. > input is 1:1 to where the window is and goes directly from x1 to client. > wm is > not involved at all. in a wayland world, this is possible, but not in x11. > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
