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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: waylandserver and outputmanagement
From:       Sebastian Kügler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-02-09 15:32:01
Message-ID: 2766726.xGLdMKGEpm () miro
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On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 04:08:23 PM Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > Not sure about that. I think, with all due respect, that KWin is too dumb
> > to scale well. I'd want the scaling factor set by kscreen and then
> > propagated to the app, so that Qt can scale up the widget using the
> > DEVICE_PIXEL stuff.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I don't think scaling the rendered result is going to be really useful (as
> > in looking as good as we can make it look).
> 
> sure, there are two things with scaling: one is to pass it on to the
> clients,  through the wl_output interface. But to be able to do so we need
> to also support scaling in the compositor. The idea is that applications
> can opt in to provide an up-scaled buffer while the compositor scales all
> other windows.
> 
> Just passing the scale parameter through is - I think - not sufficient.

Sounds like a neat solution. :)
-- 
sebas

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