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Re: [Ports] New method to handle the device specific pixel ratio
Does this fix orientation issue with grouper?
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>We just landed a merge request [1] created by Oliver (ogra) that
>improves the way we're currently handling the device specific pixel
>ratio values.
>
>The main idea is to move the device specific configuration from
>/usr/bin/ubuntu-session to a proper config file, in a way it won't be
>needed to change the original sources anymore.
>
>As described at
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting#Screen_Pixel_Ratio, here's how
>you
>can create your device specific configuration file from tomorrow's
>image on:
>
>First identify the ro.product.device android property used by your
>device (check the /system/build.prop file from your port or from the
>original Android image). Then with the desired DPR, create a file at
>/etc/ubuntu-session.d, adding your custom GRID_UNIT_PX and QTWEBKIT_DPR
>
>variables, also specifying the default form factor you want, such as:
>$ cat /etc/ubuntu-session.d/manta.conf
>GRID_UNIT_PX=20
>QTWEBKIT_DPR=2.5
>FORM_FACTOR="tablet"
>
>Another good side effect is that people will be able to safely update
>the ubuntu-session package without breaking the previous device
>specific
>setup. Also, it make way easier to accept new contributions as all we
>need now is to add a config file to the session-manager package.
>
>Also, please don't forget to send us the config file after you created
>it for your port, so we can include them in ubuntu-session by default.
>
>Thanks.
>
>[1]
>https://code.launchpad.net/~ogra/session-manager/posix-rewrite/+merge/153542
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>Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
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