Re: why 25 rows?

[Drew Arnett]

Thanks, gang!

Drew
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:48 PM Thomas Beierlein <dl1jbe@darc.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Drew, hi Christoph,
>
> Am Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:04:52 +0100
> schrieb Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>:
>
> > Re: Drew Arnett
> > > Dumb question:  why 25 rows?  Sorry for asking first, before
> > > examining code.
> >
> > I think you can start with more rows and then resize to 20 rows and it
> > still works. The restriction seems to remain from the time where
> > resizing the window wasn't supported. (With less rows things start to
> > overwrite each other.)
> >
> > Christoph
> >
>
> Totally correct. Old display code was optimized for a fixed 25 line
> layout. You would loose the bottom line with a 24 line display.
>
> For a year or so we support vertical resizing and the bottom line is
> always shown. So the warning about 25 lines should go in next release.
>
> At the moment the only negative point with less than 25 lines is the
> smaller space for the bandmap.
>
> 73, de Tom
>
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