On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:46 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I'd agree if monitor shapes weren't changing. > > I have fixed-resolution 1600x1024. For development, I like > to use a 640x768 window. None of the new Macs come with the > old 4:3 ratio. > > The standard canvas shape would look very silly on my screen. > There would be lots of dead space, or a very different layout > for the buttons.
But at the moment there are only two supported Tux Paint geometries, 640x480 and 800x600, aren't there? Or have things changed since I last looked? It seems to me that Tux Paint was designed to be inflexible in terms of window layout to keep things simple. If we want to make it flexible in light of changing monitor aspect ratios (i.e. support arbitrary geometries) then we had better solve that problem first, and *then* solve the starters images problems that will ensue (perhaps by a setting, as you have suggested, or by allowing the user to decide how the image is to be imported -- stretch, smear, scale up to most constrained dimension & then crop) per image (or if not the user, the administrator by specifying in the .txt file). Also, isn't this a problem for imports in general, not just starters? Ben _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
