[oe] [RFC] Adding screen dimensions to machine configs

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Mon Jul 9 13:42:56 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:35:13PM +0200, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> I agree with Paul's "they provide *some default* screen resolution and
> orientation.". Almost all our screen devices can be rotated on-the-fly
> anyway. The MACHINE_DISPLAY_ namespace is mainly UI frameworks and
> applications, as much as native framebuffer rotations and stuff are
> important to know, they're less relevant here.
> 
But this argument makes the variables useless as if you support on the fly
rotate then the UI framework must support dynamic resize.

So are we adding these global variables solely in order to tell opie what
size backgrounds to ship?

Graeme





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