Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Easy TuxPaint for eeePC

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:26:23PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> The eee pc comes with tuxpaint as standard.
> 

That's what I was thinking. :)  Malc, did you want to upgrade them to
the latest (I think they ship with a version or two out of date)?

The main problem here is: it's more of an issue with EeePC than it is with
Tux Paint.  I believe the EeePC ships with Xandros Linux out-of-the-box,
but I know people put Debian and/or Ubuntu on them.  Package management
in Ubuntu and Debian are fairly straight forward, with GUI tools like KDE's
"Adept", so in the end it's a packaging issue.  I encourage people to package
Tux Paint for as many platforms as possible, so hopefully that's covered. :)

With that said... I saw Tux Paint on an EeePC (4G?) running Debian or Ubuntu
(not the stock Xandros).  The launcher for Tux Paint caused it to appear in
a window that was about the size of the screen, so it didn't fit well
(with the menu at the bottom and window titlebar and border).

So perhaps it might be good to have Tux Paint try to detect the current
resolution and do something more sane when it's launched at that SAME
resolution in Windowed mode.

Something like:

  --fullscreen-if-wont-fit
  (let it switch to fullscreen if the display is the same size as Tux Paint
  and we were about to go into windowed mode)

and:
  --smaller-if-wont-fit
  (drop down to a smaller resolution... ah, but what?)


-bill!