Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Dokuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We've done a lot of talk, is there any action that can be taken? > > > > i have no idea, do you remember when web pages had best viewed on > 800x600... > well on programs they could add and beyond... still is no use for no

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Amaury Chamayou
More like 800x480 because most of these are widescreens ;) The thing as, as it was mentionned in other posts, dpi values vary wildly from screen to screen. You can have 4 inches 800x480 screens (n810) or 2.5 inches 800x480 (mylo2), so spacing can't just be given in pixels. Couldn't the HIG be rewri

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Dokuro
we could... do it in another wiki... a parallel wiki of the HIG... and stop complaining... i have started to read it and at the same time the changes could be proposed in a wiki. what i saied about glade, is that i am on a 1024x728 screen and it looks almost like the screen shot, that is why i thi

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:33:57 -0500 "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally don't see a way around this. As a large screen high-dpi > user I'm going to want my panels to be bigger, the spacing between > buttons to be larger and the fonts to be bigger. Speaking personally, this is

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Yuval Levy
Steve Fosdick wrote: > The reason I have a large, hi-res screen is NOT so the individual > features can be bigger (I could buy reading glasses for that) but > so I can get more things on the screen at once. +1 first time posting here. a big thank you to those who make Ubuntu / Gnome so usable.