On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Adam Jackson
<ajax@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:11 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
> I had a rant on the list about an equivalent issue a few months ago.
> As far as I'm concerned either developers should never assume fixed
> window sizes, or
> something/somewhere should auto-enable scroll bars if the requested
> window can't fit on
> the provided screen size. I think this would be easier to implement
> than auto-enabled vitrtual screen sizes.
So that 64x64 screen on your cell phone should be a reasonable target
then, yes?
Well, uhmm... doesn't it have to be? ;-()
Auto-scroll bar's would at least make it possible to work (even if its inconvenient);
but without it, it's _impossible_ to use.
The only alternative would be to re-design the UI based on expected hardware limitations.
I was (only) trying to address typical problems I've seen lately...
where, for example, the designer 'assumed' I'd have a 1280x1024 display because thats 'current',
or, thats what _they_ had, so they didn't even think that others would have issues.
The problem then got exacerbated when current/new hardware is coming out with 800x600
screens or even worse.
But for really small screens... ie. custom devices and appliances, non-traditional computers,