Widescreen Aspect

[Erik Bågfors]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:22:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm currently looking at a very very nice HP-monitor that is running
at 1920 by 1200 and that seams to be 16:10. So it looks like HP is
also doing that ratio.

Hey, maybe I should boot it up with the live cd and check that there. 
I better wait until people leave or I'll probably scare the hell out
of the it-guys here thinking I reinstalled there windows boxes (which
might not be a bad idea anyway :) )

/Erik