Physical ouptut sizes

[Xavier Bestel]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:54 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> With the current RandR 1.2 proposed spec, mode information includes
> physical sizes. This seems entirely bogus to me; modes don't have
> physical size, monitors have physical size.
> 
> How about I move physical size as a property of the output instead of
> the mode? We would use 0x0 for outputs without a specific size (just as
> EDID reports them).

How about being able to specify a "pseudo" physical size, for
videoprojectors ? I mean, when on such a display, I'd like e.g. Impress
to believe it's on a 14" monitor, to have big readable fonts.
Whatever the mean, it would be a good thing.

	Xav