{"id":139041,"date":"2022-11-25T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wayland-protocol-finally-ready-for-fractional-scaling\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:04:55","slug":"wayland-protocol-finally-ready-for-fractional-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wayland-protocol-finally-ready-for-fractional-scaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayland Protocol Finally Ready For Fractional Scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0 10px 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>After many months of work, the wp-fractional-scale-v1 protocol for Wayland is set to be merged imminently for fractional scaling support.<\/p>\n<p>The wp-fractional-scale-v1 protocol allows for clients to communicate fractional scaling of surfaces with the compositor.  Paired with the wp_viewport protocol can be used for providing a nice fractional scaling implementation rather than needing integer-based scaling.<\/p>\n<p>There is already code pending for wlroots \/ Sway, GNOME Mutter, and KDE around supporting this fractional scaling protocol.  There is also example client implementations pending for Qt, Rust-based Winit, and others.<\/p>\n<p>After an immense amount of work by many parties, release manager Simon Ser has dropped the &#8220;needs [acknowledgements]&#8221;, &#8220;needs review&#8221;, and &#8220;needs implementations&#8221; tags on this protocol and commented that all of the requirements for this protocol are now met and he intends to merge it in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2022&amp;image=wayland_fractional_scale\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Details via this merge request and in And in particular there is the protocol text for fractional-scale-v1 for those wondering how it is laid out.<\/div>\n<p>  .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many months of work, the wp-fractional-scale-v1 protocol for Wayland is set to be merged imminently for fractional scaling support. 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