[CF-Devel] clients

Tue Aug 3 16:13:38 CDT 2004

Lalo Martins wrote:

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      The existing clients (xt and gtk) are all but unplayable in

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      800x600 :-( I do get to play eventually, by splitting windows

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      and stacking them in a very hackish way, but I don't think

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      that's an acceptable solution in the long term.

  Note that there are also options for the client to scale down the size of the 
images - this can help a bit also - especially for the inventory and look 
window, where the spacing is really determined by the size of the images.

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      On first thought it may seem that 800x600 is not a modern

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      resolution; but please remember that in portable-land, only the

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      most expensive laptops support more than that.  If at all

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      possible, we should have a client that runs in 640x480!

  all relative I suppose - it seems that basically any new laptop will have at 
least 1024x768, with higher resolution being available.

  The problem gets into the target - a client that runs/looks nice on 800x600 
may not look or be all that efficient on higher resolution systems.

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      As a side note, is anyone working in porting the gtk client to

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      gtk2?  There are probably three or four binaries linked to gtk1

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      in my system, counting with gcfclient; in a few months it won't

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      be reasonable to expect new installations to even have gtk1.

  I'm working on it slowly.  My main motivation was to have a client that 
completely used glade2 for the gui design elements, so that down the road, it 
will be much easier to add new menus and whatever else.  Progess is whenever I 
have time to do so, which basically means when I'm not busy with something else.

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