Re: [Bug 224229] [NEW] Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Sherlock
I'm wondering whether it would be better to move the select boxes to the top
of the screen and have the graphic down the bottom when in the lowest
resolution.

Alternatively, could you not make the window resizable and have it use
scrollbars?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:25 AM, James Westby
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wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:03 +, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> > This is pretty ridiculous – you can't make it shorter and you can't move
> > it up past the top of the screen. There's no way I can see of being able
> > to change the resolution using that menu when you're on a small
> > resoltion – without tabbing to invisible options that you don't know are
> > there. Maybe I'm just missing something, I'd be happy to be
> > enlightened."
> >
> > Can something be done about this? Not everyone would do this, but it
> > would be nice to be able to easily recover from this sort of problem!
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> We saw this and spoke briefly about it yesterday. The first thing to
> note is that the 400 pixel height is pretty small, and hopefully
> something that not many users will hit.
>
> It was suggested that we move the "Detect Displays" button to be on
> the row of buttons at the bottom. That should shrink it just enough
> that it fits in this height, but obviously if you made it smaller still
> you would still be stuck. I also think that the clone checkbox has too
> much prominence, and moving that could perhaps save a few pixels as
> well.
>
> Seb, do you think fixing this would be worthy of an SRU? If so, would
> you have a preferred way of fixing it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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> set very low
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Re: [Bug 224229] [NEW] Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low

2008-04-29 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:03 +, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> This is pretty ridiculous – you can’t make it shorter and you can’t move
> it up past the top of the screen. There’s no way I can see of being able
> to change the resolution using that menu when you’re on a small
> resoltion – without tabbing to invisible options that you don’t know are
> there. Maybe I’m just missing something, I’d be happy to be
> enlightened."
> 
> Can something be done about this? Not everyone would do this, but it
> would be nice to be able to easily recover from this sort of problem!

Thanks for the bug report.

We saw this and spoke briefly about it yesterday. The first thing to 
note is that the 400 pixel height is pretty small, and hopefully 
something that not many users will hit.

It was suggested that we move the "Detect Displays" button to be on
the row of buttons at the bottom. That should shrink it just enough
that it fits in this height, but obviously if you made it smaller still
you would still be stuck. I also think that the clone checkbox has too
much prominence, and moving that could perhaps save a few pixels as
well.

Seb, do you think fixing this would be worthy of an SRU? If so, would
you have a preferred way of fixing it?

Thanks,

James

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[Bug 224229] [NEW] Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Sherlock
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

>From the great Ubuntu-Girlfriend experiment, on Hardy Heron:

http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-
enough-for-my-girlfriend/

"Ninth Task: Change screen resolution.

This was easy from the Preferences menu under Screen Resolution, and she
changed it to the smallest size available: 720×400. However, she clicked
“Keep settings” straight away, and couldn’t work out how to get it back
because the screen was too small to display the entire height of the
Screen Resolution menu. Eventually I had to do it for her by tabbing
through the options.

This is pretty ridiculous – you can’t make it shorter and you can’t move
it up past the top of the screen. There’s no way I can see of being able
to change the resolution using that menu when you’re on a small
resoltion – without tabbing to invisible options that you don’t know are
there. Maybe I’m just missing something, I’d be happy to be
enlightened."

Can something be done about this? Not everyone would do this, but it
would be nice to be able to easily recover from this sort of problem!

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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