Re: something to think about wrt volume management

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

The icons etc are going to be increasingly difficult to handle if you
scale them proportionally to the resolution. Remember that many people
use resolution as a "poor man's" technique for making things LARGER.
Also low resolutions tend to be associated with small monitors. Not
everyone has the keen eye-sight of you whippersnappers ;-) 

If we should be controlling for anything its making the actual display
size the same across monitors.

-Seth

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:48, Mark Finlay wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:33, David Emory Watson wrote:
> > I'm not sure this can be fixed by simply tweaking the spacing.  Before
> > someone changes this it would be good to look at screenshots of 1)
> > larger desktops and  2) folders with thumbnails or icons with long
> > names.
> > 
> > Ultimately it would great if icon size and spacing would scale together
> > to accomedate different screen sizes (from a 21 monitor to PDA) while
> > keeping the default zoom...
> 
> Yeah - it needs to be made relative to resolution 
> 
> Also, I've noticed that it doesnt let you like things up nicely anong
> all the sides of the screen, which is probably a symptom of the fact
> that it doesnt scale.