[Kde-accessibility] Re: KDE screen resolution policy

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thu December 25 2003 19:25, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Thursday 25 December 2003 17:52, Tom Chance wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 Dec 2003 2:55 pm, Frans Englich wrote:
> > I think that it seems, at first, like a fairly simple problem to solve,
> > but it isn't. For one thing, 800x600 is too high; I know a few people who
> > are partially sighted and who keep their monitors at 640x480 to make
> > things more readable for them. For another thing, usually the problem is
> > simply having so much information to display in one window, especially
> > with the control center modules. Either KDE and Qt need to be more
> > intelligent about
>
> Agreed.  Impaired or not many KDE interfaces are too complex and
> information dense. This needs fixing(and AFAICT will get serious attention
> post 3.2).
>
> > remapping the layout when it doesn't fit, or they need to provide
> > scrollbars on all widgets when they are too large, or all KDE
> > applications need to put very small amounts of information in each
> > "window".
>
> I pondered a little bit regarding 640x480 too. As you point out, setting
> the bar at 640 will be *very* hard to reach. The reasons may be good, but
> if is not reached the policy will loose it influence and 800x600 is atleast
> better than nothing. It is perhaps even impossible considering widgets
> minimum sizes and the inevitable layouts of some programs.
> Practical details aside, there can be two motivations to aiming for 640:
> 1) KDE's userbase is in general need of 640x480.
> 2) Impaired users(the correct way to put it?) need it.

The rule so far is that KDE as a whole should work with 800x600 and that 
individual windows should not exceed 640x480.

The X-server supports panning, maybe that can be useful if you want to use 
larger pixels and still use a desktop designed for a greater number of 
pixels. Not sure if that can be used in KDE as-is, or whether that would 
require support from kwin. Lubos will know :-)

Cheers,
Waldo
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