Re: Responding to resolution changes

"Alex Austin" <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:17:42 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
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Is that really that much of a problem though? It seems to me that most
people would come to recognize the icons on their desktops and know roughly
where they are in reference to the view port. Even if a few icons overlap a
little, they'll still be visible as separate entities, and can be picked
out.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:44:23 -0600
> "Alex Austin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> A problem I can foresee with that is that icons which are close to each
> other at a high resolution might overlap at low resolutions because
> their size is fixed.
>
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