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[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/06/10 19:42, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> Do you need to interact with them during alt-tab? Remember that your
>> screen is grabbed and you are busy finding windows, not tweaking them.
>
> I think, if we're going to expose them, we should enable them to be
> interactive in order to keep them faithful to the original and consistent.
>
>> In that case, I'd say scale them down accordingly. Not only will this
>> fit in better more visually, but it also makes a heck of a lot of
>> sense when we get input redirection and can interact with those tiny
>> widgets anyways*
>>
>
> They'd be tiny, and not very easy to interact with scaled down. It's a
> neat idea, but I think violating the scaling is actually useful in this
> case.
>
> Mark
>
>

I have been running my own builds of X11 with input redirection for
about a year now, since your display would become largely resolution
independent anyways and you can just zoom in to get more precision on
those little widgets.

Kind Regards,

Sam



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Sam Spilsbury