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It would have been possible if Wayland decided to include drawing primitives. They religiously decided against it. Now every toolkit has to somehow manage dpi
by sprash 7y ago
It would have been possible if Wayland decided to include drawing primitives. They religiously decided against it.
Now every toolkit has to somehow manage dpi scaling by itself. Actually it is a huge mess.
- majewsky 7y ago> They religiously decided against it. They decided against it because no one (except maybe xterm) was using X11's drawing APIs anymore. The whole point of Wayland is to get rid of all the unused legacy that lingers in X11.
- sprash 7y agoPeople didn't use X11's drawing API because it is severely limited (no transparency, no anti aliasing) and not because they are inherently a bad idea. Both Windows and MacOS come with their own primitives that are widely used.