On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:31, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, [Bug 1048] wrote: > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-27 > > 14:11 ------- there several goal that're incompatibles: there's a > > tradeoff between having a standalone tool being complete and runnable in > > YxZ resolution. > > > > having the same tool runnable in the same resolution, but embedded in > > mcc, thus with "mcc decoration" around plus logdrake to display logs, is > > quite a lot more tough ... > > Thierry, I have to emphasize this *is* a very serious problem. Please also > read this article: http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2003/01/05#a433 > > You can't ask of people who are running at lower resolutions (perhaps on > older hardware, or whose X configuration didn't succeed) to know the > XFdrake command instead of using the control center. It is user > unfriendliness to the nth degree. > > Please reconsider your stance on this, I believe it is really important > that the control center can be used in 640x480! > > regards,
It's not even very difficult. Just allow scrollbars. They're ugly as hell, sure, but those of us with non-standard resolutions would prefer that to unnavigable applications. And they needn't show up for people whose resolution allows the display of the whole app. A workaround for people in this situation at the moment - I don't know if there's an equivalent for different DE's / WM's, but with Sawfish under GNOME 2, if you hold down <alt> you can drag a window without needing to be point to its title bar. This is absolutely invaluable on my Picturebook (it displays at 1024x480, and it's not an uncommon machine...to name one person, Linus Torvalds has one :>), and if someone hadn't given me that tip I'd find most Mandrake tools unusable. (To be fair, SuSE has the same problem). -- adamw
