[Bugs] #871 UNSP: Current sugar-jhbuild UI fails to adjust to dpi other than for fonts

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#871: Current sugar-jhbuild UI fails to adjust to dpi other than for fonts
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    Reporter:  garycmartin                |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  assigned                   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Git as of bugdate          
    Severity:  Minor                      |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 Hi Sascha, --fullscreen takes up the full (emulated in VirtualBox) screen
 space, which it does very nicely, no decorations and fills the ~1200x900
 VirtualBox window that was otherwise running basic Fedora 10. The problem
 is that for some daft reason even though it fills the whole ~1200x900
 virtual 'screen' Xepher seems to be being told (and shows) the layout
 scaled for a fixed 800x600 screen size. Tiny frame, minute home ring, tiny
 tiny tabs in activities, and other funky and overly small Sugar layout
 issues. Using the extra --scaling 100 is pretty darn close to what I'd
 expect to see. But I'm guessing this is just luck for me and users or
 authors working in resolutions other than fixed 800x600 or 1200x900 will
 not be seeing what they should. Many thanks for the --scaling trick! That
 does seems like the magic bullet here, but a pity it only does 72 or 100
 as it won't work for other larger/smaller/in-between screen resolutions.

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