[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Reduce default emulator resolution to 1024x768

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:22:50PM +0100, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>This patch seems controversial enough to deserve a public flam^Wreview
>before hitting gitorious.
>
>One possible counterargument for this could be that destabilizing
>changes should wait until after 0.84.  But changing the resolution
>only affects our test environment, not the production environments.
>A few of those are *already* using a wide range of display
>resolutions.  The sooner we shake these bugs out of activities, the
>better experience we provide to our users.

>+DEFAULT_WIDTH  = 1024
>+DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 768

How about adjusting that patch to keep old values by default, but 
provide commandline arguments and perhaps let environment variables 
overrid default too)?

That would avoid surprises, while still allow testing alternate sizes 
without hacking the code.

  - Jonas

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