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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] rio: resize border and scrollbar based on font
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Sure that would be better. I had also mentioned $scale variable
elsewhere in this thread. If we want to make this the responsibility
of client programs then I think some environment variable is the way
to communicate it.

On 5/11/24 11:27, hiro wrote:
> khm already mentioned that if you don't want arguments you can use
> some /env files instead.
> 
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 4:11 PM Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/10/24 01:20, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 07:14:06PM -0500, Jacob Moody wrote:
>>>>
>>>> we do not currently do any sort of scaling in the UI for larger displays.
>>>> I think we should be looking at a more general solution to this problem,
>>>
>>> scrollbars and borders should be arguments passed to rio and then
>>> exposed in env or elsewhere
>>>
>>> every other attempt at 'general solutions' to ui scaling have been
>>> miserable goddamn failures and I really really don't want to live
>>> through it again
>>>
>>> khm
>>
>> Alright then where's you're code for a solution here? I don't
>> want arguments to every fucking program for scaling.
>>