F21 Workstation System Requirements - recommended resolution

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Sep 15 12:17:40 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> 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?

Minimum supported resolution is 800x600. In fact, we have some work we should do in
gnome-settings-daemon, mutter or gnome-session about telling users that their
screen is too small when it supports higher resolutions.

1024x768 is probably the lowest recommended resolution, and we should note that
the "Large Text" Universal Access option is available for people with sight problems
(eg. recommend the native resolution with large text instead of a lower resolution).

Cheers


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