Re: [Usability] Keyboard prefs, layouts tab

["michael chang" <thenewme91 gmail com>]

On 4/2/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > ...
> > The layouts selection dialog shows you the diagram of the keyboard.
> > This has problems of its own: the dialog is as big as it can be, but
> > the diagram is too small to be useful.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335836
> > The only thing I can think of for this would be to allow dialog boxes
> > to have two minimum sizes, one for 640x480 displays, and one for
> > everyone else.
>
> The minimum size of the window is not really the issue here -- on my
> system it's 204*169 pixels, much smaller than the default. The issue is
> that the diagrams are unreadable at *any* size. Even when I resize the
> window to about 2000*740 pixels, some of the writing is still too small
> to be shown as distinct characters (particularly on the numeric
> keypad).
>
> > Can anyone think of a better and more elegant way to
> > fix this?

What about making the diagrams large (e.g. 3000x1095 pixels or so) and
then using a scrollbar in a pop-up that is triggered by a clickable
image preview? Similar to the way one views a large image in a web
browser?

--
~Mike
 - Just the crazy copy cat.