On 4/2/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > ... > > The layouts selection dialog shows you the diagram of the keyboard. > > This has problems of its own: the dialog is as big as it can be, but > > the diagram is too small to be useful. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335836 > > The only thing I can think of for this would be to allow dialog boxes > > to have two minimum sizes, one for 640x480 displays, and one for > > everyone else. > > The minimum size of the window is not really the issue here -- on my > system it's 204*169 pixels, much smaller than the default. The issue is > that the diagrams are unreadable at *any* size. Even when I resize the > window to about 2000*740 pixels, some of the writing is still too small > to be shown as distinct characters (particularly on the numeric > keypad). > > > Can anyone think of a better and more elegant way to > > fix this?
What about making the diagrams large (e.g. 3000x1095 pixels or so) and then using a scrollbar in a pop-up that is triggered by a clickable image preview? Similar to the way one views a large image in a web browser? -- ~Mike - Just the crazy copy cat.
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