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

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 19.02.2009, at 15:53, Bernie Innocenti wrote:

> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> +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.
>
> We already have a command line argument to change the default size,
> and few activity authors seem to test with anything but the default.
>
> The intention of this change is to surprise them a little.  We might
> even change it every once in a while to catch those who have
> hard-coded or special-cased the new default in their code.


No, make it run at a random resolution between 800x600 and the screen  
resolution. In particular, not only 4x3 ratios.

- Bert -