Slingshot is too large for 10.1" netbook screens

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

Slingshot is too large for a 10.1" netbook screen in its default configuration. Slingshot should check the screen size on start and fall back to a smaller version of itself if it doesn't fit in the screen (the data collected in the labs will help to determine the proper fallback size).

[Brendan William (bwilliam)]

Maybe 2 rows and 4 columns, that's how I have in set up right now.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Brendan, that's a great setup! It keeps a good aspect ratio.
There are many pages though, but hey, it's a 10.1 screen.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I think I'd like to try a fullscreen mode for netbooks (and tablets I suppose). But since we're past feature freeze, I think just going with a smaller grid is probably a good fix for this cycle.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Which grid size will be the fallback?

[Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio)]

What are your screen resolutions? I think slingshot should be fine on anything bigger than 1024x768.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

10.1" screens are normally 1024x600

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

or worse... 800x480

[Mana (manamana)]

That's a 8.9" screen. I don't think we should be worrying about anything below that.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

After a week of so of testing, I've found the 2 x 5 (rows x columns) setup to be better. That's just my opinion however.