This is IT, Mathieu. This fully conpatible with the situation in HTML/CSS, where you shouldn't use points but, at least for designer pages, you should use pixel units. Pixels are the same everywhere, so maybe Pd should use pixel - or does it already?
The only problem is when you mix the two schemes (points / pixels), you get a disaster.
A 10-pixel font on my laptop is just about right.... but on my 22" desktop monitor, its microscopic (really). If you really want portability, resolution-independent is the only way to go.
I can't even begin to describe just how evil pixel-based design is. I hope that the proliferation of SVG will begin to eliminate it.
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