Slingshot

Slingshot is too large for 10.1" netbook screens

Bug #954121 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff on 2012-03-13

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This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Slingshot	Fix Released	Medium	Corentin Noël	Slingshot 0.7 "Donatello"

Bug Description

Slingshot is too large for a 10.1" netbook screen in its default configuration. Slingshot should check the screen size on start and fall back to a smaller version of itself if it doesn't fit in the screen (the data collected in the labs will help to determine the proper fallback size).

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Brendan William (bwilliam) wrote on 2012-03-14:

#1

Maybe 2 rows and 4 columns, that's how I have in set up right now.

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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote on 2012-03-14:

#2

Brendan, that's a great setup! It keeps a good aspect ratio.
There are many pages though, but hey, it's a 10.1 screen.

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) on 2012-03-14

Changed in slingshot:
assignee:	nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design)

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2012-03-14:

#3

I think I'd like to try a fullscreen mode for netbooks (and tablets I suppose). But since we're past feature freeze, I think just going with a smaller grid is probably a good fix for this cycle.

Changed in slingshot:
assignee:	elementary UX Team (elementary-design) → nobody
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote on 2012-03-15:

#4

Which grid size will be the fallback?

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Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio) wrote on 2012-03-16:

#5

What are your screen resolutions? I think slingshot should be fine on anything bigger than 1024x768.

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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote on 2012-03-16:

#6

10.1" screens are normally 1024x600

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote on 2012-03-16:

#7

or worse... 800x480

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Mana (manamana) wrote on 2012-03-21:

#8

Slingshot in 1024x600 screen.png Edit (348.0 KiB, image/png)

That's a 8.9" screen. I don't think we should be worrying about anything below that.

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Victor Martinez (victored) wrote on 2012-03-21:

#9

After a week of so of testing, I've found the 2 x 5 (rows x columns) setup to be better. That's just my opinion however.

Victor Martinez (victored) on 2012-04-13

Changed in slingshot:
assignee:	nobody → Victor Eduardo (victored)
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2012-04-16

tags:

added: netbook

Corentin Noël (tintou) on 2012-04-23

Changed in slingshot:
assignee:	Victor Eduardo (victored) → Corentin Noël (tintou)

Corentin Noël (tintou) on 2012-04-25

Changed in slingshot:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2012-06-21

Changed in slingshot:
milestone:	none → luna-beta1

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2012-11-09

Changed in slingshot:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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