2014-08-04 10:49 GMT+02:00 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]>:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Davide Andreoli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 2014-08-04 9:33 GMT+02:00 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]>:
> >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Davide Andreoli <[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > 2014-08-04 2:54 GMT+02:00 Daniel Juyung Seo <[email protected]>:
> >> >> Hi, great job!
> >> >> I had svn version of epymc but I can't even remember how it was
> because
> >> >> there were a lot of enhancements.
> >> >> Thanks to you.
> >> >>
> >> >> By the way, I have a couple of comments.
> >> >> 1. The icon and text sizes are too big compared with the default
> >> elementary
> >> >> theme with the default scalability. I had to manually scale it down
> to
> >> 0.5
> >> >> to match it with default elementary theme from the general
> configuration
> >> >> panel. Is there a reason behind this?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > This is a media center, it is designed to be used in fullscreen from
> your
> >> > couch...
> >> > Can you read the texts from the couch at 0.5 scale? this app is not
> >> > designed
> >> > to match the default elm theme for the desktop.
> >> > But, if you really prefer a smaller scale (maybe your monitor has
> >> different
> >> > dpi?)
> >> > you can adjust the interface scale right from the config, there's a
> >> proper
> >> > option
> >> > for that.
> >>
> >> Hum, I think the intent of scale is different. We should define what
> >> scale 1.0 means, but until now it has pretty much means that it is a
> >> 90 dpi screen being read at 60 cm. Now your issue is with elementary
> >> config and this is something we need to solve. Enlightenment make it
> >> possible to specify an elementary profile per virtual desktop (If you
> >> manage to find the configuration option). The idea being that we
> >> should have a TV profile for elementary that will be used when we use
> >> it with a TV screen. I would argue that Enlightenment need improvement
> >> in that regard, but it would be neat to provide a config dialog with
> >> widget preview when a screen is plugged in to solve this kind of
> >> config hazard.
> >>
> >> Anyway point is, current situation need to improve. I understand why
> >> you did that as it help users until we have a better configuration
> >> infrastructure/UI, but when that happen Daniel will be perfectly
> >> right.
> >>
> >
> > Indeed all this is valid for desktop application, but this is a
> mediacenter,
> > it is designed to work without a desktop, without the need of a wm
> > nor elm_config. In fact epymc don't use the default elm theme, it
> implement
> > it's own theme. And imo the scale is perfect as it is used now.
>
> Well, this is another problem we have also with elementary.
> Terminology and Calaos also have this issue. Sometimes you want per
> application configuration or you are in a setup where your application
> take over the screen and want to manage elementary configuration. I
> think there is two solutions to those problem. First we need the
> concept of an elementary config overlay that does the same as a theme
> overlay (but I don't know yet how to implement the save logic). Second
> solution that I think we need a generic and themable widget for
> configuring elementary and application itself. Elm_Pref is a step in
> that direction, but there is more work to be done.
>
> Conclusion, you are perfectly right now, and I said so in my previous
> mail, but it doesn't lead to a nice setup in all use case of your
> application. We need to continuously think on how to improve our
> framework to make the most of it. As an example of issue with current
> situation, what happen if I don't have a TV, but use a tablet as a
> replacement.


If you are using a table, you just need to adjust the scale in epymc,
I'm not getting your point...



> You see, we have more work to do in the configuration
> department of Elementary. We are not done yet... Will we ever be done
> !
> --
> Cedric BAIL
>
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