F21 Workstation System Requirements - recommended resolution

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 20:08:26 UTC 2014


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On 09/12/2014 04:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Should there be a "recommended resolution" for Workstation?
> 
> I've got a 1024x768 VM and I've got all kinds of weirdness from 
> gnome-software seemingly expecting a much bigger display. Maybe
> it's a bug so I filed one: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141337
> 
> A resolution recommendation wouldn't suggest that you can't have 
> less. But that if you have what's recommended, then you should have
> a good experience and not have to resize windows by default. They 
> should just all fit in the recommended screen size. So I'm
> suggesting a burden on developers, rather than a limitation on
> users. Maybe 1280x1024?
> 
> 
> Chris Murphy
> 

There's also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734808 which
has to do with gnome-initial-setup being too large for a 1024x768 system.

It's also worth noting that a lot of the cheaper 11" and 13" laptops
out there are using 1280x720 screens, so that's worth keeping in mind
as well.
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