Subject: bug#7004: 23.2; In fullscreen mode, the echo area takes too much vertical space

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:06:14 +0200

Andreas Schwab skrev 2010-09-11 10.56:
> Jan Djärv<[email-masked]>  writes:

>
>> Besides from more or less rewrite the display engine of course.
>
> Does it?  As I already said, the key point is to be able to specify the
> window sizes in pixel granularity, and the display engine can already
> handle font sizes that are not a whole mutiple of a character cell.
>

Using pixel instead of character as a unit of measure has been on the wishlist 
for a long time (in TODO since 2000).  As nobody has so far been able to do it 
makes me think it is quite hard.

	Jan D.