Wayland surface units (Re: [PATCH 2/2] protocol: Support scaled outputs and surfaces)

[Alexander Larsson]

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).