Fedora install support for netbooks -- small screen size

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 06:12:33 UTC 2010


> > We've had 800x600 as the expected minimum for _years_.  Like, since it
> > was called Red Hat Linux.  It's not even a particularly egregious
> > assumption, that's the fallback resolution for Windows 2k and later, and
> > it's the Gnome HIG minimum design size.
> >
> > That's why anaconda has a fixed-size UI, and why that fixed size happens
> > to be 800x600.
>
> imho, 800x600 should be used only as the last option, if resolution
detection fails, and i assume detection doesn't fail that often.


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