[ gpsdrive ] size of dashboard boxes

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Mittwoch 01 Oktober 2008 schrieb Hamish:
> Hi,
>
> wrt an earlier thread about getting the dashboard background color to
> turn red for night-mode, which lead to a question about how to make those
> boxes smaller so more screen real-estate could be dedicated to the maps...
>
> this lead to the explanation by Guenther that the height of those boxes
> is determined by the minimap preview and the compass.
>
>
> my idea for desktop mode is to move the compass to above the minimap and
> then make both part of the left-edge panel (making it 5px wider I guess).
> The the three dashboard text boxes could shrink to ~ 1cm tall and there
> would be less empty grey space above the minimap / below the Clear button
> and a more efficient use of space.
>
like the compass in car mode? could be possible.

there is one question I wonder for a long time:
is the minimap really necessary? who uses it?
my preference would be to remove it completely, or at least move it to a 
separate window...

> And for PDA mode use XOR'd yellow 40pt text overlay for some dashboard
> essentials. Maybe add text color to the prefs menu if auto-inversion
> doesn't look nice.
>
especially in pda mode there is the question which and how much widgets should 
be overlayed. on small displays the space is very limited, and people still 
want to see something of the map I guess...



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