Display settings should not be per user

Chris Ross fdra6390 at tebibyte.org
Mon Feb 15 09:27:08 UTC 2010


On 02/12/2010 06:39 AM, Tobias Ringström wrote:
Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users
> expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings
> might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am
> I missing something?

In my house the default resolution is 2048x1536, but my 7 year old's 
account is at 1280x1024 so that Club Penguin comes out nearly as big as 
the screen instead of postcard size. It's a flash application so runs at 
a fixed resolution, 1024x768 I think.

Chris R.


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