F21 Workstation System Requirements - recommended resolution

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 08:17 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> ----- 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).

Is 1280x720 bigger or smaller than 1024x768? It's more pixels, but in UI
terms, it's actually smaller since vertical screen size tends to be the
limiting factor.

Even if we advertise 1024x768 as the minimum recommended for
compactness, we need to be testing with 720-pixels vertically and fixing
bugs as if that was our minimum standard for working well.

As a 2560x1440 user, I'd say that most things work fine, but there are a
few problematical apps ... I recently had problems with Boxes.

- Owen