Re: GPE on hires displays (e.g. Zaurus c700)

Hi;

on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:06:34PM +0200, Goetz Bock wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've for test just started GPE (from familiar v0.7rc2) on my Zaurus
> c700.
>
> I get an X display and gpe-dm allows me to create a new user and log in
> (using the keyboard, the touchscreen does not work).

If you'd like I can upload X packages from OpenZaurus which work fine
with the c700's touchscreen, the c700 keyboard with its 'fn' key
mappings and other goodness.

> But the menubar is
> VERY tiny.
>

If you build matchbox from CVS ( UNSTABLE_V6 branch ), you can have a
panel at any size you want and the included matchbox applets will
scale up. Its currently a little sketchy but works mostly. MBDesktop
is also more aware of larger than ipaq displays. I hope to have an
ipkg this week, maybe safest to wait till then ;-)

GTK stuff like toolbar and font sizes can also be changed via
XSETTINGS and xst. I cant remember the exact 'keys' but Im sure
someone else on the list does :-)

The thing that sucks about X on the c700 is how slow it is in
landscape mode. It seems the only way this can be fixed is a rewrite
of how tinyX does its shadowfb 'stuff I dont really understand' or get
ATI to release some specs on its Imageon chip thats in the C700.
 
> OPIE is currently getting up to speed to (re)create it's icons at
> 128x128 and scale them down from there (this at last seamd to be to idea
> for now).
>
> Is there any attemp to allow/create bigger icons for GPE?

I think most icons probably already exist at 48x48. 128x128 seems a
little extreme and possibly wasteful to me.

  -- Matthew
Received on Tue Jun 03 18:36:22 2003