[maemo-developers] border in osso-xterm in fullscreen?

[From: Stefan Kost]

Hi,

Frantisek Dufka schrieb:
> Giacomo Tufano wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_(typography) have, probably, the  
>> informations you're looking for. The answer to the Frantisek problem  
>> is, IMHO, that (citing the page) "In digital type, the relationship of  
>> the height of particular letters to the em is arbitrarily set by the  
>> typeface designer. However, as a very rough guideline, an "average"  
>> font might have a cap height of 70% of the em, and an x-height of 48%  
>> of the em". These differences could account for the numbers Frantisek  
>> found...
> 
> Thanks. So one basically cannot guess how many lines will fit from the 
> point size alone, it depends on specific font and its designer. Quite 
> confusing but nevermind :-)
> 
> As for the first mystery - I found the solution.
> 
> vte-0.12.2/src/vte-private.h
> #define VTE_PAD_WIDTH 1
> 
> When changing to 0 and rebuilding libvte4 it fits. Sadly same constant 
> is used for padding width and height which is pretty unfortunate. Left 
> border padding would be nice, without border there is no space and 
> letters touch black LCD border and look a bit strange. Top and bottom 
> border doesn't look so bad. I think splitting VTE_PAD_WIDTH into 
> VTE_PAD_X and VTE_PAD_Y would be useful. And making it variable would be 
> event better. Both for user customization and for computing it at 
> runtime for proper centering when font size doesn't fit exactly.

Sounds good. Have you filed an enhancement request at bugzilla.gnome.org? Should 
be easy to fix.

Stefan

> 
> Frantisek
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