Am 20.09.2006 um 13:25 schrieb karl:

> Bert Freudenberg skrev:
>> Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>>> On 2006 September 19 17:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> What would be really interesting is if someone could come up  
>>>> with a way
>>>> to author projects at their native OLPC resolution (1200x900) while
>>>> viewing them at half that size, that is, scaled by 0.5 in a 600x450
>>>> window. This is because the actual resolution of the display is  
>>>> 200 dpi,
>>>> whereas a normal monitor has 100 dpi.
>>>
>>> Hmm. I never really tried a resolution outside of the  
>>> "standard" (1280x960 etc), but if setting X to non-standard  
>>> resolution to 1200x900 / 600x450 works .. if I build a project on  
>>> the higher resolution and then restart X on  lower, and run the  
>>> project - is that what you have in mind?
>>
>> No, I was actually looking for something to simulate the user  
>> experience of the OLPC display on a regular display. I'd like to  
>> have a "minification glass" I put on top of the actual 1200x900  
>> Squeak project to make its physical size on the monitor be 600x450  
>> pixels. For example, I think there are VNC clients that can scale  
>> down a remote display, that might be one idea to achieve what I want.
> If you click on a project and hold the button down you get a to a  
> menu that let let you enter
> a project active. This is a scaled down version of the project,  
> maybe this can help you.

Not quite - halos etc. are not in that project, though the view is  
indeed scaled down. But you cannot really work in there. But if  
someone could make that work it would indeed be a great tool.

- Bert -