[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Smallscreen mod for GtkFileChooser

Joaquim Duran joaquinduran at adtelecom.es
Thu Jan 10 12:31:40 UTC 2008


En/na Florian Boor ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> Paul Sokolovsky schrieb:
>>   Well, not much joy here. Here's screenshot (as installed under
>> Angstrom, I'm sorry beforehand if Poky is different):
>> http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/PaulSokolovsky?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Poky-smallscreen.png
>>
>>   So, what we see is that the design of the dialog is changed,
>> simplifying it to just a file list, parent dir button, and buttons for
>> mounted filesystems (same icons appeared in Angstrom image). There're
>> still "desktop" gaps and dialog sizing (3/4 of screen width, no resize
>> with matchbox).
> 
> The screenshot pretty much indicates that the default Gnome spacing wastes too
> much of space and looks ugly on these small screens. In fact I would make this
> window fullscreen on such a small screen. This dialog style does not make much
> of sense and only reduces usability. Just keep in mind that a file selector is
> usually a window that displays a lot of information at one time and needs all
> the space it can get.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
> 

Is it possible only apply the patch if GUI_MACHINE_CLASS = "smallscreen"
is set?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Joaquim Duran




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