On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:31 +0200 Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On ons, 2013-05-22 at 11:42 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On ons, 2013-05-22 at 12:11 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > - wayland units, wu > > > - wayland pixels, wp, wpx > > > - surface units, su > > > - surface unit pixels, sux > > > - surface pixels, sp, spx > > > - wayland surface units, wsu > > > - wayland atomic units, wau > > > - pips, pip > > > ehhh... > > > > Yeah, names are hard. But "sux" is awesome! > > > > Other alternatives: > > - compositor units, cu > > - pels, pel > > - dots, dot > > - surface element, surfel, sel > > > > none of these are great either... > > For the record, Microsoft uses "DIP", for Device-independent-pixels, and > Apple uses "Points" for the non-hardware coordinates (in the app level > APIs). And we have no well-known equivalent in the FOSS or Linux world? DIP would sound fine otherwise, except Microsoft seems to tie it to the physical units via dpi again. Meh. "pel" sounds nice... - pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
