Best way to determine user's screensize?

[Igor Korot]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 8:00 AM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:53 PM <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-10-31 at 13:02:03 +0100,
> > "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2020-10-31 12:30:43 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > > > There is no valid way for an application to read my mind and size
> > > > itself. Attempting to query my screen size seems to just make things
> > > > worse in a lot of situations.
> >
> > > You still haven't answered the question: Where should the initial
> > > window size come from? Does your window manager tell the application
> > > how large a window should be? And if it does, can you as a user
> > > configure that? I don't think mine (xfce) does that. (I guess tiling
> > > WMs generally do that, but I've never used one.)
> >
> > The intial/default window should be big enough to contain the
> > initial/default content, regardless of the configuration of the
> > screen(s)/monitor(s).  "The GUI," whether it's something near the
> > bottom, like X11, or something more complicated, like GTK or Qt, should
> > have the information and/or the API to make the widgets usable and the
> > text readable, possibly based on user configuration (e.g., I like 6
> > point type on my 288dpi laptop display; other people might like 12 point
> > type on their 72dpi big screen monitor).
>
> This. The window manager gets information from the internal layout
> manager, but the application itself shouldn't care. I should be able
> to build a window by saying "it should have a notebook, and that
> notebook should have a label saying Name and an input big enough for
> 20 characters, and below that a label saying Class and a drop-down
> with options Wizard, Cleric, Fighter, etc, etc, etc, etc". At no point
> should pixel sizes or screen sizes be within the scope of my
> application.
>

Amen to that, Chris.

Thank you.


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