Curious question: resolution independence

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Tuesday 06 January 2009 19:36:32, Jud Craft escreveu:
> The development list is probably not the place for simple queries, but
> I haven't found it anywhere else and not sure where to look.  Since
> plasma is the default KDE environment after all...
>
> Is the KDE desktop resolution independent?  I know that Plasma uses a
> ton of scalable graphics (from general info), but I haven't heard
> anything about actually using that scalability besides when resizing
> the panel.  In addition, that doesn't mention whether the Oxygen
> graphics (or even Qt widgets, I suppose) have such a feature.
>
> As an aside:  in reference for such things, will there be certain,
> specified size-steps defined for the panel, as opposed to free-form
> stretching (which does cause some elements to occasionally look
> distorted or out of place)?  I'd imagine it would require a reference
> size (some sort of middle-resolution, 96 DPI desktop for example --
> where standard sizes (16x16, 24x24, and 32x32 icons) are readily
> visible.
>
> From that, Plasma could support two types of scaling from there:  1)
> DPI-aware scaling of all elements, and 2) step-size resizing of the
> objects themselves (for example, from a one-row-taskbar panel to a
> two-row-taskbar panel).  I'd imagine of course desktop plasmoids would
> have no such restrictions, being freely stretchable and rotatable.
>
> I imagine the result would be similar to a Windows taskbar:  it
> resizes in fixed increments (where the taskbar-row is basic unit), but
> also scales according to DPI.  I apologize for getting off-topic from
> my original question; design details are not the business of a casual
> observer.

the tecnology can do resolition independence desktop the only problem is that 
your scren can't we will need somthing like 600 dpi screens to realy start 
thinking about it.
As I usualy say  svg is fuly scalable but your screen is not.


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