Woeees
After a couple of days with it, I think my main woe with the Eee and Fedora (bigger than the wireless) is Inkscape on small screens and this is a problem I knew before the purchase (testing Inkscape on my desktop on 800x600) and a problem which is not directly related to Eee, it can be found on any small display:
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The small problem is the lack of vertical space, the main toolbar has fixed height and is too high, you can't access the color swatch at the bottom or the useful tools in the status bar. The bigger problem is that the maximized window do not fill (horizontally) the screen. You have to unmaximize it and resize manually. And do this each time you start the application, as it does not remember the window geometry.
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heathenx just fielded a question citing the same vertical height problem. Although you likely know this already, the fix for this limitation is in the 0.46+devel versions right now. So 0.47 will alleviate the minimum Inkscape window height problem.
ReplyDeleteThat is a problem with the long release cycles: always you have to jump to the development branch somewhere in the middle of the cycle due to a major bugfix like this or a compelling new feature.
ReplyDeleteNow if it would be possible to customize the left toolbar and remove one or two icons I rarely use, Inkscape would be perfectly usable on small screens.
On KDE3/KDE4 you are able to save properties for a window class or a single application. This does also include initial size and position of the application, among many many more options. That's really handy, can't gnome do something like that?
ReplyDeleteI think GNOME can do save the windows size if the applications are cooperant (it works for Agave but not for Inkscape). As for placement, it seems that the default in Metacity is to provide what it thinks is "the best placement".
ReplyDeleteThe window not properly maximizing can only happen because your WM lets it get away with it...
ReplyDeleteThat's one thing I was wondering about: who is responsible for the bug: the application, the window manager...
ReplyDeleteDepending on whether or not you're making much use of the keyboard, could you possibly use xrandr to rotate the display and use it in portrait mode?
ReplyDeleteI thought about that too, but the keyboard is important when working with inkscape: keep Ctrl pressed to keep the aspect ratio while resizing, use the numeric keys for various zooms and many other useful shortcuts.
ReplyDeleteNot that this solves the Inkscape minimum window size problem, but there is the 'xwit' utility that will let you change applications to a specific size from the command line. For example:
ReplyDeletexwit -resize 900 650 -select
Then you click the window you want to resize.
I think xwit is in most repos. It might or might not be useful for you.