Widescreen Aspect

[Robert Brimhall]

I have the same machine and agree wider aspect graphics would be nice.
I will at least say that Ubuntu is the first distro I have used to
include widescreen wallpapers though.

Robert


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:40:45 +0200, calle <carl.johan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using an Inspiron 8500 laptop with a wide screen.
> Thing is, the artwork in ubuntu does not scale well with this screen.
> 
> Currently, the wide-artwork is resolution 1600x900 which translates to
> 16x9 aspect, which is what most television and dvd:s call widescreen.
> 
> Wide monitors (and some new hdtv's) use the aspect 16x10 though.
> 
> Is there any way of letting the artwork people know this? I think the
> desktop backgrounds should definitely be 16x10 instead of 16x9, since
> i don't know of any computer monitors using the 16x9 aspect.
> 
> The highest 16x10 resolution i've heard of is 1920x1200, but since the
> 4x3 image is in 1600x1200 resolution i guess 1680x1050 would be closer
> to that.
> 
> Also, is there any effort put into aspect-izing the gdm theme?
> Aspect-deforming is always very ugly (imho..) and as it is now, of
> course everything should scale since we don't want to create lots and
> lots of pictures for every resolution. But at least create one for
> every aspect? That would amout to two resolutions; 16x10 and 4x3
> (possibly 16x9 if that is even interesting?)
> 
> Anyone else have thoughts on this?
> 
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Robert