Widescreen Aspect

[Jeff Waugh]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 03:40 +0200, calle wrote:
> 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.

Hrm, interesting - 16x9 seemed to be the most popular from my experience
- perhaps we should go through the X resolutions list again and see.

> Also, is there any effort put into aspect-izing the gdm theme?

The 'Human' GDM theme should be aspect-ratio independent. The 'Human
Circle of Friends' one won't be. Unfortunately, the gdmgreeter theme
definition does not provide for ratio-aware scaling (eg. 50% of screen
height, scale the image width appropriately), so we couldn't do better
for that theme in this release. We might be looking into it for Hoary
though. :-)

- Jeff

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