Add a page around HiDPI scaling, with notes about both Wayland+XWayland

[joshuataylor]

This is a first draft, taken from my ramblings on labwc/labwc#828 .

Please leave feedback around style, grammar, spelling and also technical information and other tips and tricks.

I've marked this as a draft until everyone is happy with it, and have allowed edits from maintainers.

Just wanted to also say thank you for the work y'all do on Labwc, it's fantastic. :)

[Consolatis]

First of all: nice write-up.

Some nitpicks below that stood out to me while reading.

Another thing that came up for me while reading is that the whole XWayland thing is pretty much experimental and requires quite a bit of work and knowledge (which this guide does a good job of providing). But maybe it should be stated more clearly that the XWayland part is not intended for the casual user and more for people who want to get their hands dirty.

[johanmalm]

Looks good. Thanks for your work on this.
Please don't be deterred by the number of comments 😄
Writing this sort of stuff is not easy and you've made a great effort.

[joshuataylor]

Thank you very much for taking the time to provide fantastic notes and feedback!

Very much appreciated, I'll get it updated ASAP.

[kyak]

@joshuataylor i've just stumbled upon this draft. It's great that you've taken the challenge to document this and put it together.

Do you plan to finish it up eventually?

[johanmalm]

I started tidying this up. Can push if @joshuataylor wants me to / does not respond.

[joshuataylor]

My apologies, the second half of year has been crazy personal wise and I haven't had a chance to return to this yet.

Feel free to adopt this PR, and change anything to your liking - the more knowledge around this topic, the better (thanks so much by the way!).

edit: Also, this topic moves QUICK, as it's in active development, so feel free to remove anything specific, also happy to clarify anything, please ping me and I'll do my best to respond (it's calmed now :-)). 👍

[johanmalm]

@joshuataylor I've tweaked/refactored a bit + rebased on main.
I've put the patch-sections on a separate page because they're quite deep. I assume the patching can be simplified a bit now that we're on wlroots 0.17. It's not obvious to me how to simplify this. Could you give me some pointers?