Comment 27 for bug 325958
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| Bruno Girin (brunogirin) wrote Re: Jaunty Alpha 4: Ubiquity windows does not fit on 1024x600 screen | #27 |
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Vendors have been coming out with more 9-10" screen models recently but most 7" models have a 800x480 resolution, such as the EeePC 701 or the Nokia web tablets.
Anyway, the real problem for netbooks as I see it is that the maximus package in Netbook Remix automatically resizes standard windows to the screen's size but doesn't do anything with modal dialogue windows, which is what seems to be used in Ubiquity (please correct me if I'm wrong). There could be 2 approaches to resolving that problem:
1. Make Ubiquity use a window type that maximus can handle (possibly only do that if the maximus package is installed).
2. Change maximus so that it can resize all types of windows.
Having said this, there is another use case which I think we should consider: what if the user trying to install Ubuntu has selected large fonts on purpose (such as a user with bad eyesight)? In this case, even on a large screen you could have a situation where the window ends up being larger than the screen. So maybe the criteria would be to start Ubiquity full screen based on a combination of screen area and font metrics?