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

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu Feb 19 09:53:41 EST 2009


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.

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