From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <48E1DCA8.2040005@dtsp.co.nz> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:00:40 +1300 From: David Sainty MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bastien Nocera CC: Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com, marcel@holtmann.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make bluetooth-properties fit on smaller displays References: <1222679240.1825.14.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1222679724.3311.53.camel@cookie.hadess.net> <1222701730.3311.76.camel@cookie.hadess.net> In-Reply-To: <1222701730.3311.76.camel@cookie.hadess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 10:05 -0500, Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com wrote: > >> Hi Bastien & Marcel: >> >> Here's the screenshots as requested: >> >> Old: http://imagebin.org/27644 >> >> New: http://imagebin.org/27643 >> >> A lot of these MID devices don't have screens bigger than 1024x600 >> (some 800x600 depending on their aspect ratio). This change really >> just reorganizes the GUI so that both laptops and MID devices can use >> the same layout. I'm attaching an updated patch relative to 1.6. >> > > Both versions would fit on both those screens. What's wrong with leaving > it as is? In the worst case, I'd move the contextual buttons to the side > of the treeview, instead of underneath, and add labels to those buttons. > The preferences dialog on an Eee PC (701) screen is a real pain, it is too big vertically. 800x480 screen, plus a window manager bar at the bottom, plus some chunky window decorations up the top. For a window to fit conveniently on a standard Eee PC screen it needs to be 422 pixels vertically it looks like (the standard decorations are VERY chunky :)