Re: Default Panel Sizes in Gnome 2.4.1

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le sam 11/10/2003 à 02:19, Curtis C. Hovey a écrit :
> I have and 800x600 laptop and face the scale problem a lot.  Sizes
> should be set relative to screen. 

No, when you have a big monitor at a not-so-dense resolution, you don't
want your icons to be 3cm large.
Similarly, a PDA with a 3" 640x480 screen would need bigger icons than a
laptop's 12" 800x600. Icons size should be determined by the DPI first,
then tweakable by the user.

>  We to need a smart scaling
> mechanism.  We can gnome-font-properties scales fonts, Nautilus has zoom
> levels, and Ximian changes the default icon size in menus.  We might be
> able to consolidate the scaling to one location.

Yeah, sure.

	Xav