[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1381: wxgui: add monitor calibrate option to prefs

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#1381: wxgui: add monitor calibrate option to prefs
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 Reporter:  hamish       |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:  map scale    |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All          |  
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Changes (by vincent):

  * milestone:  6.5.0 => 6.4.3


Comment:

 OK for the tooltip

 The notion of display scale is very useful when performing on-the-fly
 snapshots of the display. Would be great if one could precisely trim his
 display settings.

 I understand retrieving monitor size is not straight, and obviously much
 platform-dependant...
 GIMP's method relies on monitor information delivered by xdpyinfo (am I
 wrong ?), but sometimes this info is not reliable.

 Could the first-aid solution be an option in the Display preferences menu
 (2 input datafields) that allows user to set manually his vertical- &
 horizontal resolutions ? after all, we can believe the user who cares for
 this parameter is aware of how to calculate his proper values, no ?

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