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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 12:15 +0100 schrieb Alan Bell:
> On 18/06/15 10:00, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > 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 ...
> additionally we don't take into account the hardware capabilities of the 
> user. Some people like a chunky UI, others like lots of small detail. 
> The GU should be adjustable to taste and all applications should respect 
> it and *expect* to have the size of the GU vary a bit and do something 
> fluid with it.
> It would be good to be able to presume that the GU is an integer 
> fraction of the width of the screen.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DeprecatedPorting#Screen_Pixel_Ratio 

shows how exactly the grid units for a device are to be computed ...
the problem is that we don't really get the pixel density from any
system info here ...

ciao
	oli