Widescreen Aspect

[Michele Cella]

janne wrote:

>fre 2004-10-22 klockan 06:01 +0200 skrev Erik Bågfors:
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>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:22:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:58 +0200, calle wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>My current main machine (Dell Latitude) has 1920x1200 as well. On the
>other hand, a stream of recent subnotebooks (like the Sony Vaio T and
>others) have a 1280x768 screen which comes out to 10:6 (or about
>16:9.6).
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>One solution is probably to have backgrounds that are a little forgiving
>when stretched or compressed and have a generic 16:9 or 16:10 widescreen
>image that is adjusted appropriately. 
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>Another one is to make the images 16:10 and a little tileable, so when
>added as a tile on the screen, it won't be visible that your far right
>edge may actually be the left edge of the same image. 
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>A bit strange (and unfortunate) that laptop widescreens aren't using the
>same proportions as widescreen TV (which is 16:9 in both Europe and USA
>at least, and, I think, in Japan).
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As far as I know all laptop widescreens are 16:10, for istance my HP 
zt3020ea has 1280x800 and the same goes for the Sony Vaio T ( take a 
look here http://makeashorterlink.com/?P3D424799 ).

Ciao.
    Michele