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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 09:52 +0200 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> Hey there,
> 
> (I hope some of the designers are on this list ;-)
> 
> I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2]
> and I'm trying to make sense of what is described.
> 
what really bothers me about this is that we don't take the HW
capabilities of the panel into account at all but instead take a setting
that fits all without the ability to adjust ...

... that is like driving all desktop screens at 1024x768 even if they
are HD capable in the old  Xorg world. 

we only allow three settings but there are many resolutions and pixel
densities in between ... 

also ... while the GU value can be properly computed for phones based on
the info we have about the pixel density against the physical panel
size, this is info that we can not get programmatically at all from the
system... i.e. i exactly know that my phone has 441ppi on 5" and can
pick the right GU when doing a port to the hardware ... for laptops we
will not have these exact values and the UI might look like crap due to
just using a to low or to high average value (like 800x600 on a 14" HD
screen)

i think this fixed GU limitation only makes sense in cases where you
have dedicated images/installations for one specific device you did a
port for .. it wont work in generic environments where you don't know
the specs at all in advance (and can not determine them via info from
the running system (like physical panel size))

ciao
	oli