GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668602
Remove "wide mode"
Last modified: 2020-11-12 07:12:20 UTC
The wide mode is really a "unbreak my netbook" mode. Instead, Cheese should detect whether the computer's display is that small that it should show the list of videos somewhere else.
Working on wide mode disabled, and figure out whether the Cheese window fits on the screen. The query of the screen size: gdk_screen_get_monitor_work_area(). http://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/unstable/GdkScreen.html#gdk-screen-get-monitor-workarea It is necessary to have a new enough GTK+ (and GDK) version.CheeseFlash currently does something similar, and the source is in Cheese, in libcheese/cheese-flash.c.
(In reply to comment #0) > The wide mode is really a "unbreak my netbook" mode. Instead, Cheese should > detect whether the computer's display is that small that it should show the > list of videos somewhere else. Erm, no the wide-mode is exactly that, a mode for widescreen devices, yes it is esp. helpful on small wide-screen devices. But if I want to have some cheese fun with some friends with my 4:3 aspect ratio webcam, on my 24" 16:9 screen, and maximize cheese so everyone can see the preview well, then the wide mode is the correct mode to use too, otherwise I end up with a lot of black unused screen on the left and right of my (unnecessarily small) preview.
The wide mode doesn't do anything in fullscreen. It's not a zoom feature, it shows the list of captured images on the side of the window (when windowed).
Right, sorry I meant: s/fullscreen/maximized/
(In reply to comment #4) > Right, sorry I meant: s/fullscreen/maximized/ Actually, re-reading my own comment, I actually said maximized, not fullscreen!
The maximised/fullscreen modes could/should be the same thing in GNOME 3 apps so the point is moot. The computer knows the size of the screen, the size of the window, and the aspect ratio of your camera, so I don't think that offering it as an option instead of doing the right thing automatically is helpful to the user. There's no other apps in GNOME that have a "wide mode" (eog doesn't, totem doesn't).
(In reply to comment #6) > The maximised/fullscreen modes could/should be the same thing in GNOME 3 apps > so the point is moot. Well currently they are not in cheese, windowed and thus maximized has the thumbnails selector / preview, fullscreen does not. > The computer knows the size of the screen, the size of > the window, and the aspect ratio of your camera, so I don't think that offering > it as an option instead of doing the right thing automatically is helpful to > the user. I'm not against selecting where to best put the thumbnails automatically (*), I'm against complete removing wide-mode support. *) I suggest adding a cmdline to override, but no ui
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