Re: Remove flickering on resize and get rid of the aspect frame

[Filippo Argiolas <fargiolas gnome org>]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM, daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> wrote:
> hey filippo!
hey!

> again, this is an awesome feature. it seems to work fine, i just have
> some comments:
>
>      * on start, i automatically get 2 small black borders on each side
>        with a resolution of 640x480. we should remove that.

I tried but it's quite difficult. Here setting the default window
width to 612 (now is 640) makes the bars vanish but I doubt with a
different theme, or a different font size, this window would be the
same.
Try yourself resizing the window (just the width should be enough) and
getting the optimal size with xwininfo. I guess it won't be 612..
We need a way to set a default size just for the drawing area but the
only one I know is size_request that sets a minimum hardcoded size, we
need just an initial size.
If anyone knows how to do it please tell us!

>      * crazy thought: what about painting the whole window black?
>        except for accessibility, this might look nice

Hehe probably it'd look nice but it would be completely different from
the rest of the desktop. I don't think you would get too much
consensus here :)

>      * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527623 comes to my
>        mind, should we fix that too?

Uhm cheese works fine on my netbook and I can resize it to fit the
screen. Anyway I think the only definitive way to fix that would be to
have an horizontal mode (with the vertical thumbview on a side).
That will eventually fix the hildon mode not working anymore.

> thanks for your great work!

thank you!

Filippo