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

[Jan Djärv]

Andreas Schwab skrev 2010-09-11 10.56:
> Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>  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.