Excuse me for reporting this bug here, but registering in upstream for rather small single improvement doesn't looks to be a good idea. Seeing successful solution of some berlios.de hosted projects I've decided to do the same. Now "standard" monitor type category ("square", 5x4) was at least divided into two: "square" and "wide" (16x10) monitor types (maybe even with moving to make "wide" monitor standard one). On one of my PCs with "wide" monitor I use x11-misc/slim-1.3.2-r7 login manager with xfce-g-box theme (from x11-themes/slim-themes-1.2.3a-r6). Oryginally designed for "square" monitor scaled for "wide" one theme looks... not very well (maybe even "ugly"). The firts step of solving this issue should be providing "wide": variants of x11-themes/slim-themes (how about other DMs I don't know). The second (ideal) is to provide in slim mechanism of auto-selection theme type depending on current monitor rate. P.S. Similiar issue could be seen at most packages with standard wallpapers.
Yes, that's definitely something we shouldn't be implementing.
1. I'm not registered on berlios.de bug tracker (and, as I know, not all of Gentoo developers possess accounts there). Not planning any significant activity in developing of berlios.de-hosted projects I don't think registration there to be a good idea. Could anybody registered there report this issue upstream (and attach link to this bug)? 2. The issue seems to be far not only slim-themes related (standard XFce4 wallpapers also expects 5x4 monitor). So, this bug could be used as tracker for similiar issues (or separate tracker bug is to be created).
(In reply to comment #2) > 1. I'm not registered on berlios.de bug tracker (and, as I know, not all of > Gentoo developers possess accounts there). > Not planning any significant activity in developing of berlios.de-hosted > projects I don't think registration there to be a good idea. > Could anybody registered there report this issue upstream (and attach link > to this bug)? All you need to register there is an email address .... > 2. The issue seems to be far not only slim-themes related (standard XFce4 > wallpapers also expects 5x4 monitor). > So, this bug could be used as tracker for similiar issues (or separate > tracker bug is to be created). I think you could just as easily manage this by specifying a 'wide' theme explicitly in slim.conf. Since the primary issue seems to be that images to support wide themes don't exist, you should file a feature request upstream to see if they will create slim theme images to support the widescreen format. For your specific theme, though, you'll need to contact the contributor from xfce-look.org
