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

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:31 +0200
Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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).

And we have no well-known equivalent in the FOSS or Linux world?

DIP would sound fine otherwise, except Microsoft seems to tie it to the
physical units via dpi again. Meh.

"pel" sounds nice...


- pq