[haiku-development] Re: Screen preflet, vesa

  • From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:58:32 -0800

Alexandre Deckner wrote:
Hi devs!
I'm working on Screen preflet's revert and apply behavior under vesa.

Consider the following case:
Your current screen res is 800x600 and you apply a new vesa setting, say 1024x768. You get warned it will be applied on next reboot, fine.
You quit the Screen preflet, and relaunch it because you changed your mind.
What should the preflet show as a current setting?
1)The setting present in the "vesa" file. i.e: the one that will be applied on next reboot if you don't change it again.
or 2) the currently active 800x600, which is the current behavior

I went for 1) personally, works well. (revert is consistent with that too)

In that particular case, what about adding a little warning text saying that this setting will be applied on the next reboot, in front of the, now grayed, apply button?

On a related note, the "Your graphics card is not supported" part of message displayed when changing resolutions in VESA mode is a bit misleading. The card is supported, otherwise it would not be working. :)

What is not supported is changing resolution on the fly. So, how about changing the message accordingly to something like this?

"Haiku needs to be restarted to change the resolution of your graphics card."

I think this would be more accurate (and more concise too). FWIW.

Cheers,

Koki

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