Bug 36100

Summary:	alternate units of measurement for kruler (inches)
Product:	[Applications] kruler	Reporter:	Unknown <null>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Mathias Soeken <soeken>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ajvetter28, edera, erwin.gaubitzer, finex, frieder.ferlemann, jk, jm, linkstat, nate, philipp, soeken, tomashnyk, vishnugb
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Additional units of measurements patch for KDE 3.5.8 example for usage with arbitrary scale

Description tc 2001-12-12 20:48:49 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kview
Version:           2.2 (using KDE 2.2.0 )
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

Right now you can only measure pixels (which is GREAT) but sometimes I'd like to be able to measure in inches if possible.  I know that it could only be an approximation.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2004-05-24 10:26:56 UTC

Replaced tc@clark.net with null@kde.org due to bounces by reporter

Comment 2 Cyrille Berger 2005-01-20 14:58:49 UTC

centimeters and other units would be nice too

Comment 3 Christopher Smith 2006-12-28 06:43:42 UTC

I have a high-resolution laptop screen and have configured the DPI information correctly; having Kruler offer inches/centimeters for measurement would be great.

Comment 4 Oliver Grimm 2007-03-16 11:59:24 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 5 Andrey Bondarenko 2007-12-15 10:11:59 UTC

Created attachment 22560 [details]
Additional units of measurements patch for KDE 3.5.8

Patch adds following units of measurement: points, picas, centimeters and
inches.
Patch was tested on Gentoo box with KDE 3.5.8.
Kruler sources was obtained from svn tag 3.5.8.

Comment 6 Mathias Soeken 2008-12-16 12:01:11 UTC

*** Bug 120837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 FiNeX 2008-12-26 23:33:26 UTC

Could this patch been easily ported to KDE 4?

Comment 8 Kurt Hindenburg 2009-03-25 06:14:40 UTC

Comment on attachment 22560 [details]
Additional units of measurements patch for KDE 3.5.8

Patch is .gz

Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2015-03-11 23:14:15 UTC

*** Bug 345070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Christoph Feck 2015-11-23 13:45:06 UTC

*** Bug 355738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Vishnu 2017-07-11 09:49:11 UTC

You could use 'xrandr' to gather information on what the physical size of the screen is, and use that for this purpose. I don't know what the equivalent in Wayland maybe.

Comment 12 Christoph Feck 2018-10-01 01:22:38 UTC

*** Bug 399193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Ph. Marek 2023-02-27 16:07:29 UTC

Yeah, please add real-world units as well (I know that this depends on the DPI being correct!);
similarly, angles (against the horizontal or vertical resp, against another kruler) and/or areas would be quite nice.

Comment 14 Frieder Ferlemann 2024-08-22 09:31:11 UTC

Created attachment 172849 [details]
example for usage with arbitrary scale

adding a (hand edited) example how it could be used and how it maybe could look like