[Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 17:12, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 16:55, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>> Is it still possible that resize capability, at least for PyGTK code without
>>> absolute positioning, might be included in SoaS?
>>
>> I don't know if it's possible, anyone has an idea of how feasible is this?
>
> I feel like I'm reading a conversation among Dadaists.  This conversation
> doesn't make any sense at all.
>
> PyGTK code without absolute positioning resizes automatically by default,
> if you can even call it that.  If you haven't specified absolute sizes,
> then there is no size from which to "resize", and GTK simply chooses the
> best size to fit the window.  There is no question of feasibility, because
> this is the default behavior on every platform, and has always been.
>
> It may be that Strawberry is not correctly configured to handle high-DPI
> screens.  That's a bug, but it's not preventing automatic resizing.  It's
> just sizing based on an incorrect model of the screen.

The issue here isn't activity windows not taking all available space,
but rather UI elements not keeping the proportions that the author
intended.

Regards,

Tomeu

> --Ben
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