Re: Responding to resolution changes

Probably would have a similar effect, but why don't we just store panel icon
positions as a floating value from 0-1 in each dimension? (0,0) would be
icon centered on top-left corner of screen, (1,1) would be icon centered on
bottom-right corner of screen. Am I off my rocker?

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2008/11/30 Tony Houghton <[email protected]>:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:07:36 +0000
> > "Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> 2008/11/18 Tony Houghton <[email protected]>:
> >> > Is it possible for ROX to hook into some sort of signal so it can
> >> > respond to resolution changes? It would be handy if it could adjust
> its
> >> > panels and backdrop icons to fit new resolutions.
> [...]
> >> I had a vague idea the filer already adapted to size changes, but I'm
> >> stuck with an NVidia card at the moment, so xrandr doesn't work for me
> >> anyway.
> >
> > I've just checked and found it was supposed to respond to size changes,
> > but it wasn't updating the panels' copies of the screen geometry. That
> > might well have been my oversight when I did the xinerama stuff! The fix
> > is quite simple, patch attached.
>
> Aha - applied!
>
> > This still doesn't solve the problem of icons disappearing off the edge
> > of the pinboard when the size decreases. IMO moving the icons
> > permanently a la Windows is just about the lesser of two evils but I can
> > think of two possible better strategies:
>
> There's also Dieter Meinert's patch. Does that work? It just needs
> testing, I think:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/rox-filer.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pinboard-resize
>
>
> --
> Dr Thomas Leonard               ROX desktop / Zero Install
> GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6  8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's
> challenge
> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great
> prizes
> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
> _______________________________________________
> rox-devel mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel
>



-- 
- Alex Austin
(651) 238-9273

"...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur."

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

_______________________________________________
rox-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel