Comment 4 for bug 224229

I'm wondering whether it would be better to move the select boxes to the top
of the screen and have the graphic down the bottom when in the lowest
resolution.

Alternatively, could you not make the window resizable and have it use
scrollbars?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:25 AM, James Westby
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wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is
> set very low
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