Tim: >> I tend to agree regarding things like resolution. Screen dimensions and >> resolutions are fixed entities, and should be set to exactly match the >> hardware involved.
lee: > Many people still don't see it that way. And in a way, they are right: > Nobody prevents you to use 800x600 on a display which is capable of > 1920*1200. However, modern displays only work well at one resolution, their native resolution. Exact halves can work, but odd divisions do not work well. Some of them are bloody awful. >> So simply playing with screen is X by Y pixels to set things up is >> really inadequate. > When you consider screen resolutions as fixed entities, what other > choice do you have but to set up the resolutions of your displays as X > by Y pixels? None, to be pedantic. But people bodge the resolution to solve other problems: The size of the fonts The size of the icons The size of graphics Which really ought to be controlled, directly, and individually. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
