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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.534s | source
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wmf ◴[24 Jun 25 19:29 UTC] No.44370040[source]▶
Drawing a circle is kind of cheating. The hard part of scaling is drawing UI elements like raster icons or 1px hairlines to look non-blurry.
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phkahler ◴[24 Jun 25 20:03 UTC] No.44370438[source]▶
>> The hard part of scaling is drawing UI elements like raster icons or 1px hairlines to look non-blurry.

And doing so actually using X not OpenGL.

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1. kllrnohj ◴[25 Jun 25 00:49 UTC] No.44372644[source]▶
Yeah this is kinda the big elephant in the room here? They didn't prove what they set out to prove. Yes obviously OpenGL does scaling just fine, the entire point of Wayland is to get the compositor to just being a compositor. They didn't do any scaling with X. They didn't do anything at all with X other than ask it some basic display information.
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2. slackfan ◴[25 Jun 25 01:19 UTC] No.44372813[source]▶
X shouldn't be displaying anything that isn't a right angle anyway.

All circular UI elements are haram.