Return-Path: Message-ID: <48E2A4D5.8020509@dtsp.co.nz> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:14:45 +1300 From: David Sainty MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com CC: marcel@holtmann.org, hadess@hadess.net, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make bluetooth-properties fit on smaller displays References: <1222679240.1825.14.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1222679724.3311.53.camel@cookie.hadess.net> <1222701730.3311.76.camel@cookie.hadess.net> <48E1DCA8.2040005@dtsp.co.nz> <1222762649.1825.56.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <48E1E9D3.8050202@dtsp.co.nz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: xdpyinfo says the DPI is 100x101... heh... dimensions: 800x480 pixels (203x121 millimeters) resolution: 100x101 dots per inch In reality it's around 133dpi (153mm x 92mm). Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I would think the DPI of the environment is playing into this. David, what DPI is on your EEE? > > Regards > > Mario Limonciello > Dell | Linux Engineering > Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Sainty [mailto:david.sainty@dtsp.co.nz] > Sent: Tue 9/30/2008 3:56 AM > To: Marcel Holtmann > Cc: Bastien Nocera; Limonciello, Mario; linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make bluetooth-properties fit on smaller displays > > Marcel Holtmann wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> >> >>>>> A lot of these MID devices don't have screens bigger than 1024x600 >>>>> (some 800x600 depending on their aspect ratio). This change really >>>>> just reorganizes the GUI so that both laptops and MID devices can use >>>>> the same layout. I'm attaching an updated patch relative to 1.6. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Both versions would fit on both those screens. What's wrong with leaving >>>> it as is? In the worst case, I'd move the contextual buttons to the side >>>> of the treeview, instead of underneath, and add labels to those buttons. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> The preferences dialog on an Eee PC (701) screen is a real pain, it is >>> too big vertically. 800x480 screen, plus a window manager bar at the >>> bottom, plus some chunky window decorations up the top. For a window to >>> fit conveniently on a standard Eee PC screen it needs to be 422 pixels >>> vertically it looks like (the standard decorations are VERY chunky :) >>> >>> >> the dialog ix 420x420 and thus it should fit. >> >> > Interesting - that's not what I'm seeing. I've just tried xwininfo on > bluez-gnome-1.7 on both an Eee PC and a full sized PC (possibly with > slightly different support library versions). > > Full sized PC geometry for the preferences window is 420x521. EeePC > geometry for the same is 420x523. > I'm not sure where the 2 pixel difference comes from (I don't think > the geometry here is including the window manager decorations). But > neither are close to 420x420. You weren't thinking 420x520 perchance? > >