Proposal for UI scaling

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Gerry Boland 
<gerry.boland at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> chatting with the UITK guys, they need support for UI scaling (i.e. 
> grid
> unit value) per display. I think adding a scale parameter to Mir would
> make sense for this. I've written up a proposal here, please have a 
> look
> and see what you think:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cr-8qz_3DTxOyOiZIQjgX6lVdQQulxfE_5uAValKAdY/edit#

As luck would have it, 
https://trello.com/c/kssfZgBH/234-13-pocketdesktopv1-provide-form-factor-dpi-etc-info-per-surface-to-shell 
is what I'm looking at next, which is the server→client side of this.