id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	mlocked
7543	adjusting the viewability of the UI for overscan	brian@…	stuartm	"Currently, if one needs to reduce the size of the UI in order to have it viewable within the boundaries set by overscan, one actually winds up reducing (and likely offsetting) the size of the UI widget/window.  This can be done conveniently through the Screen Setup Wizards tool.

The problem is however, if the UI is being viewed on a screen with gnome panel(s), unless the UI is exactly the size of the screen on which it's being displayed, it gets displayed ""under"" the panels.

It would appear that gnome has some logic by where if a window is the same size as the screen it's running on (i.e. ""full screen"") the window is placed on top of the panels, hiding them.  If the window is however only one pixel (or more) smaller than the screen, either vertically or horizontally, then the window goes under the panels.

It seems the solution to this is to not reduce the size of the actual window that the UI is being displayed on when compensation for overscan is being requested, but to keep the window the same size and just scale down the area on that window being used to draw the UI.

Without overscan, the effect of this would be to have a ""border"" around the space that the UI is active in rather than having the UI stretch right to the window edges.

I hope this explanation was clear.  I'd be happy to try to clarify if not."	defect	closed	major	unknown	MythTV - User Interface Library	0.22	medium	wontfix			1