On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:26 -0700, Jim Carter wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, David Sainty wrote: > > > xdpyinfo says the DPI is 100x101... heh... > > > > dimensions: 800x480 pixels (203x121 millimeters) > > resolution: 100x101 dots per inch > > > > In reality it's around 133dpi (153mm x 92mm). > > I'm sure the erratic sizing comes from nonuniform font selection. <snip> What does all that have to do with the discussion at hand? > I wonder if the Bluetooth applet follows this rule? Judging from the > discussion, most likely it does, and it's then at the mercy of the distro's > setup. There's resolution independence patches ready to be merged into GTK+. See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546711 > Judging the screenshots that were shown, I think the landscape layout (new) > is more practical for the N810. The N810 doesn't use bluez-gnome. > However, the smallest screen I have to > deal with at work is the Palm Treo 650 at 320x320px. Which doesn't run Linux, or bluez-gnome, does it? > It wouldn't be > running Linux, but if it were, both orientations would be equally bad. I > suspect that handheld devices are the most likely to have Bluetooth > accessories, since they have the most limitation in power and USB ports, so > special effort should be put in to fit any dialog boxes reliably on the > small screens, assuming the distro provides defaults that make this > possible. Please don't go off on tangents. There's a pretty clear discussion happening, I don't think we want to hear ramblings about other devices that don't even use bluez-gnome. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
