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None of the toolkits (Motif, Tk, Gtk, Qt, etc.) could handle fractional scaling so if Wayland had taken the easy way out it would break every app.
by wmf 1y ago
None of the toolkits (Motif, Tk, Gtk, Qt, etc.) could handle fractional scaling so if Wayland had taken the easy way out it would break every app.
- lostmsu 1y agoWhy is Wayland trying to monkey patch something that's broken elsewhere?
- wmf 1y agoDo you want to be right or do you want to display apps.
- lostmsu 1y agoHow many apps will you display if you don't display them right? Are you ready to tell me poor graphics is not one of the reasons people not use Linux? You won't display apps to the users you lost. Instead Windows will.
- trinix912 1y agoThat is right, but if the whole point of Wayland is to fix what X can't, then why not do it right from the start? Things would break anyways. Otherwise it's not really fixing all glaring issues X has.
- nixosbestos 1y agoExcept for the fact that Wayland has had a fractional scaling protocol for some time now. Qt implements it. There's some unknown reason that GTK won't pick it up. But anyway, it's definitely there. There's even a beta-level implementation in Firefox, etc.