F21 Workstation System Requirements - recommended resolution

[drago01]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 09/12/2014 04:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Should there be a "recommended resolution" for Workstation?
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>> 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
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.

Not only cheap laptops. You can find expensive ones with 2560x1440
which after factoring in hidpi scaling (2x) is effectively 1280x720 ..
So if we want to recomend one it should be that and if apps do not
work we need to fix them.