High resolution displays and GNOME

High resolution displays and GNOME

> I like the idea of using something like CSS's 'em' as a base unit. That also ensures interfaces are likely to scale sanely if a user could benefit from an unusually large font size.

Windows has always done this in dialog box templates. (In the times of 16-bit Windows, this was useful not for high-resolution displays but for non-square pixels on EGA/HGC cards. And nobody dared to waste memory on bitmaps.)

This would be easy to implement, but I have not found support for something like this in any cross-platform GUI toolkit except wxWindows.