Re: [9front] [PATCH] rio: resize border and scrollbar based on font

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

i'm glad people are invested into the code they wrote, but as ori and
moody explained in depth doing a significant improvent to the current
lack of scaling would require huge amount of changes in many unrelated
components.

if you want to make it more probable that rio is ever replaced, I
think you should think of improving our overall graphics system. you
could work on this in parallel to all the current limited
rio/libdraw/devdraw graphical programs. i think it's not possible for
a single person to do though.

My reason is that rio sucks, and devdraw sucks, mainly bec. both
depend on each other in a clunky way. Given that this is already a
second-system I'm quite surprised how little apparent thought went
into this design. So yeah, I propose a third-system that takes a more
educated approach concentrating on actually making simple graphics/UI
abstractions, as opposed to making a demo/example/benchmark
application for concurrency and parallelism in an incomplete
multiprocessor system.
Just be careful with those overly abstract and generic graphics
toolkits, they are often way more complicated what would be needed to
replace rio/libdraw/devdraw.