[Bug 1382291] Re: Account creation during first boot of an OEM image needs to scale based on resolution

[Stéphane Verdy]

Some feedback from bregma: 
"I imagine it's just a matter of writing a script to query the X server (xrandr) and calculating some reasonable scaling factor based on the pixel density, then setting the gsettings value
<bregma> maybe a half-days work for someone who knows Python
<bregma> StephaneVerdy, that bug has some good info on how to write the script (and a link to an example), although in Unity we use a more fine-grained scaling control and allow different scaling on different monitors (probably not an issue for OEM setup)
<bregma> the best bet is to use the GTK devioce info because they work around some broken EDIDs better than X does

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Title:
  Account creation during first boot of an OEM image needs to scale
  based on resolution

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project trusty series:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  In HiDPI screens, the OOBE for OEM images is not ideal.

  The new gSettings to scale GTK applications (and their corresponding
  settings in System Settings) work great, but this does not help for
  the account creation (first boot) for users buying a pre-install
  system.

  We would need changes in Ubiquity to:

   * Probe the monitor to get resolution information
   * Re-scale the ubiquity window using the corresponding gsetting (com.ubuntu.user-interface scale-factor) based on resolution

  We would need the changes to be backported to Trusty as well.

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