Comment 36 for bug 36189
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| David Fokkema (dfokkema) wrote Re: [Bug 36189] Re: Applets do not scale well with changing resolution | #36 |
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On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 05:43 +0000, John Haitas wrote:
> The fact is that this is not something an average user should worry about.
> Most people don't care about the placement of these objects and applets.
In fact, I think average users do worry about buttons and icons which
end up in strange places. Average users that use external monitors from
time to time, that is.
> I advocate tracking down apps that modify any gconf entries in the
> '/apps/panel/' schema. A good first step would be to look at the 'Display
> Preferences' code or any code that adjusts screen resolution and be sure
> that it is considerate of this issue (not modifying 'right stick' or
> 'position' values of any objects or applets).
Exactly my point. Apps should not modify these values.