Make theme suitable for qvga screens.

[stefan@…]

Many phones have qvga screens only (HTC, EZX,..). We need a way to deal with this.

Some first thoughts about the problem:

• Create a qvga theme.
• Adjust settings in gtkrc. Philipp Zabel already started this.
• All images for the theme needs rescaling. We can start with some convert magic

here, but on long term we need official pixmaps even for qvga.

What else is needed?

[stefan@…]

(From update of attachment 9)
gtkrc qvga patch from Philipp Zabel

[koen@…]

It seems that the patch just halves the values, is it possible to do that at
runtime by detecting screen size and dpi (or machine type).

[mickey@…]

I'll gladly accept patches to add a openmoko-theme-qvga + corresponding images.
I think it should live in the official repository, not as a project. For now,
(offline) rescaling the images will do, but eventually I hope we can get the
"official" designer to provide qvga images as well. Not soon though.

[mickey@…]

Thanks, I have assigned that to me and will include it in SVN right after FOSDEM.

[laforge@…]

Mickey: Can you please integrate it now, since FOSDEM is over?

Sean:

Mickey and I have agreed that if the graphics designers are currently mostly
idle, then we should ask them to provide a QVGA version of all the pixmaps they
have done so far. For all future deliverables from the graphics designers, they
should always provide one VGA and one QVGA version.

[mickey@…]

applied in r1531 - thanks!

[philipp.zabel@…]

New theme, new problems. openmoko-theme-standard2 needs to be QVGAified. Also,
QVGA screens don't work too well with 36x36 stock icons - I guess
openmoko-icon-theme-standard2 has to be modified, too.
And then there are images which are used unscaled all over the place. For
example all the openmoko-panel applets (except the startup-notification applet,
that one seems to scale already) and the images used in openmoko-dialer2.

[philipp.zabel@…]

openmoko-standard theme downscaled

[stefan@…]

gtkrc qvga patch from Philipp Zabel

[mickey@…]

attached and commited, thanks Philipp. Leaving this open since there is still
some work to do wrt. stock icons and also wrt. matchbox-panel-2 which obviously
has a race condition when dealing with scaled images. We might be able to
workaround that in libmokopanelui2.

[philipp.zabel@…]

I'd propose to make the stock icons 22x22 for the QVGA theme. That way they'll
still end up a bit bigger on 2.8" and 2.6" QVGA, but it is a standard size on
the desktop and 16x16 is really a bit limiting.

[mickey@…]

any outstanding issues or can we close this now?

[philipp.zabel@…]

The issues with the GTK theme itself are solved AFAIK. The icon theme
downscaling in OpenEmbedded? is kind of a hack - I think this should be handled
upstream.

Then, there are some applications (Dialer!) that provide their own icons instead
of using stock icons, and those have yet to be rescaled separately or moved into
the moko icon theme. One could argue that this is out of the scope of this bug
and that these issues should be filed separately.

[koen@…]

The qvga theme lacks gtkrc files for e.g. mokomediaplayer

[olv@…]

let's not worry about this

[mickey@…]

I disagree, we should worry about this. There are tons of QVGA devices out there
and if we close this, then it looks like we don't care about OpenMoko? being used
on non-FIC devices. We surely don't want to give this message, right?

[mickey@…]

Reassigning to Michael, since this is a "community" bug.