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Re: [trinity-devel] KControl Anomalies

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:17:28 -0400
On 7 June 2012 13:13, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> The real answer to the question is "whatever the maximum
>> required to display all
>> the kcontrol widgets".  That being said, the 640x480
>> default probably came from
>> KDE1 when VGA was the new standard. The fly in the ointment
>> is the new 10" mini
>> laptops -- I don't know what their resolution is, but I
>> think we could safely do
>> 800x760 as the default kcontrol size.
>>
>> What we need to do is just run kcontrol and find out what
>> the max size needs to
>> be using kruler. I'll take a look tonight and see what I
>> come up with. I'm
>> betting that 800x760 would do while still preserving
>> usability with the 1320x768
>> res monitors.
>
> Sounds nice. You also have to knnow where in the sources to make the change. Somewhere in tdebase/kcontrol? :-)
>
> Darrell
>
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I have problems viewing windows still on my 2011 Laptop! of course it
is only 1024x768 so sometimes windows are to tall for my viewing!

If you can't fit what you need in 800x768 pixels, you probably are
cramming the page up to much, or require a better method of displaying
options.


Calvin