LCD, pan, randr1.2, and pan-to-downscale

[Eric Anholt]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 18:09 +0800, Austin Yuan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I know if configuring a screen size larger than the physical size of a
> LCD, pan will occur, and users need to scroll to view the far edges of
> the desktop.
> 
> Pan-to-downscale here means when the screen size is bigger than LCD
> size, downscale screen content in order to fit its whole content into
> the viewable area. Pan-to-downscale is useful for those small LCD with
> lower resolution (such as 800x480) on small devices,so that user can
> view more content larger than LCD size without scrolling.
> 
> Pan-to-downscale currently needs to do some ugly hacking in the video
> driver to achieve it. I saw randr1.2 has many significantly changes
> compared with version 1.1, and there are some discussion about
> pan-and-scan. I am curious whether randr1.2 has addressed this
> pan-to-downscale feature, and will it support it in future?

I think most people would agree that that should really be a compositing
manager feature.

I'm personally pretty convinced that even basic pan-and-scan ought to be
a compositing manager feature, as if I was to ever use pan-and-scan (not
that I do), it seems like I'd surely want a more interesting policy for
when and where to move the crtc in the framebuffer than what that the
server used to have.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com

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