Comments on: Attention-to-detail ’till you bleed

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:45:52 +0000

333 for the win

By: Greg K Nicholson

Greg K Nicholson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:46:37 +0000

Oo! *I* want to paint the bikeshed too! It should definitely be 25em.

By: onox

onox — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:32:12 +0000

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:43:30 +0000

By: Daniel Schierbeck

Daniel Schierbeck — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:48:13 +0000

+1 for 361px

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:35:54 +0000

Could this be a config option somewhere but with a sensible default (26em +1)? People might well want to change the size depending on screen size/resolution.

By: Tim Fuchs

Tim Fuchs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:37:20 +0000

22 or 24

By: DanRabbit

DanRabbit — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:14:32 +0000

I’m going to have to vote 24 EMs as first choice and 22 EMs as second choice. 26 is just too big for me. It looks kind of empty, and anything less than 22 looks kind of squished.

By: fazil

fazil — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:46:07 +0000

Hi Macslow

I think you should work on gnome themes also. Make the themes in ubuntu slim and perfect. The window borders thick look is so bad and wastes space. Looking at this notification, I feel its so modern and does not match with the existing gnome desktop.

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:19:09 +0000

@ Cimi: Actually it’s not 100 DPI, but 133 DPI. I just measured my Dell Mini 9’s screen (1024×600, 16:9) with a ruler:

195 mm * 113 mm (~225 mm diagonal)

in inch that is

7.67″ * 4.44″ (~ 8.9″ diagonal)

So 1024 / 7.67 = 133.5 and 600 / 4.44 = 135.1, thus I “average” it at 134 DPI. Also you have to take font size into account. With those 134 DPI and “Candara 9″ 20 EMs bubble width would be 297 pixels wide (22 EMs -> 327 pixels wide). That’s too narrow. 24 EMs are 357 pixels wide and looks much less cramped.