Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OEM Priority Project |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Kevin Krafthefer | ||
gnome-control-center |
Expired
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Medium
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Loïc Minier | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
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Low
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Loïc Minier |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-control-
From the great Ubuntu-Girlfriend experiment, on Hardy Heron:
http://
"Ninth Task: Change screen resolution.
This was easy from the Preferences menu under Screen Resolution, and she changed it to the smallest size available: 720×400. However, she clicked “Keep settings” straight away, and couldn’t work out how to get it back because the screen was too small to display the entire height of the Screen Resolution menu. Eventually I had to do it for her by tabbing through the options.
This is pretty ridiculous – you can’t make it shorter and you can’t move it up past the top of the screen. There’s no way I can see of being able to change the resolution using that menu when you’re on a small resoltion – without tabbing to invisible options that you don’t know are there. Maybe I’m just missing something, I’d be happy to be enlightened."
Can something be done about this? Not everyone would do this, but it would be nice to be able to easily recover from this sort of problem!
Related branches
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → canonical-qa |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | canonical-desktop-team → canonical-mobile |
tags: | added: oem-services |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:03 +0000, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> This is pretty ridiculous – you can’t make it shorter and you can’t move
> it up past the top of the screen. There’s no way I can see of being able
> to change the resolution using that menu when you’re on a small
> resoltion – without tabbing to invisible options that you don’t know are
> there. Maybe I’m just missing something, I’d be happy to be
> enlightened."
>
> Can something be done about this? Not everyone would do this, but it
> would be nice to be able to easily recover from this sort of problem!
Thanks for the bug report.
We saw this and spoke briefly about it yesterday. The first thing to
note is that the 400 pixel height is pretty small, and hopefully
something that not many users will hit.
It was suggested that we move the "Detect Displays" button to be on
the row of buttons at the bottom. That should shrink it just enough
that it fits in this height, but obviously if you made it smaller still
you would still be stuck. I also think that the clone checkbox has too
much prominence, and moving that could perhaps save a few pixels as
well.
Seb, do you think fixing this would be worthy of an SRU? If so, would
you have a preferred way of fixing it?
Thanks,
James