Hi!
I'd really like to know why MandrakeSoft never did anything about the fixed
font in KDE, nor the minimum font size in Konqueror.
Besides, did you consider that your default icon arrangement would look bad
on non-English desktops?
These are all *small* things that were easy to fix. Linux-Mandrake 8.0 is a
nice distro with Apache, php, mysql, proftp and all working fine, but you can
never under-estimate the first *visual* impression a new user gets.
After installing 8.0 this is how Mandrake's homepage looks in Konqueror:
http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8konq.png
It would have been easily fixed by setting the minimum font size to at least
10, preferably 11. I told you that *many* times during the betas.
This is how the icons are arranged the first time you open KDE on a
non-English desktop:
http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8icons.png
The Trashcan has naturally moved to the left, leaving the user with an
over-all impression of randomly scattered icons.
And this is the most appalling thing: The fixed font. I'm sure there's a good
reason why you decided to ignore the numerous requests to change the fixed
font. This is how KWrite looks, out-of-box in Linux-Mandrake 8.0:
http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8fixed.png
Please, I can't sleep at night. I need to know why MandrakeSoft did this,
despite all the suggestions made on the Cooker mailing list. Those little
things are oh so important, you know.
Regards,
Mattias
