On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:19, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > ATM GTK frontend's widh/height are burned-in at compile time, but it > should be able to read those parameters from the external world at > runtime Can the frontend not query the framebuffer and ask it what resolution it was started in and use that as the window size? > (global variables? a special couple of > cdebconf-gtk/window_width cdebconf-gtk/window_height questions that are > set up after boot?) No, let's not bother the user with that. > This may be nice especially for those PPC machines > that have fixed framebuffer resolution at boot time (like wolfram's > power mac that has fixed 1024x768 resolution). Same for Sparc. > A default fallback window size should be provided if the option is not > specified. IMO default window size should be equal to FB resolution. Except maybe if we're going to use a smaller window size to avoid getting text lines that are too long for readability (the rest of the display should probably have a nice background in that case).
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