Widescreen Aspect

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Fri Oct 22 03:22:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:58 +0200, calle wrote:
> I know dell & apple use 16x10 for their wide-stuff, but ofcourse there
> will be differences, since there seemes to be no standard or
> "difference" (widescreen is both 16x9 and 16x10). Hence if ubuntu
> wants to be truly great there'll have to be (at least?) the three
> aspects, 4x3, 16x9, 16x10, i guess?

Along with very quickly diminishing returns... ;-) We'll figure
something out. It may just be that, eventually, we use ratio-independent
methods rather than shipping special widescreen images at all.

In the mean time, any more input on the 16:9 vs 16:10 issue is welcome;
I want to sort that out if it's wrong.

- Jeff

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