Hi Gerard, On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, [Bug 1048] wrote:
> I am not sure you (Reinout) understand how much work it is. Occasionally I do some Java programming and I do appreciate the work that's put into Mandrake's setup tools. But that's hardly any argument- from a users' perspective, it's simply unacceptable that a vital tool like the control center doesn't fit on screen. > with most modern screens in 1280x1024 - and look ridiculous. > It's not an easy thing to do to sell your stuff when you get > ironical or mocking press reports. You will get mocking press reports either way, but at least when you choose the 640x480 option, you don't make the control center unusable for some people. > I understand your problem; I am using 800x600 myself, and many It's not *my* problem, but I shudder to think of the frustration this would cause to someone who had accidentally set his screen resolution too low and tries to use the control center to revert it back and finds that he can't do so because the frigging OK button is off the screen... > But really, 640x480... From my experience, I'd guess than less than > 1% of users are sticking to this resolution. Should Mandrake Say your made up statistics are right. How many estimated Mandrake users are there, two million? Count them, that's 20.000 potentially frustrated users yelling that even when the problem was put to the developers' attention in beta stage, they didn't listen and now we're stuck in 640x480. regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen Artificial Intelligence student email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 GPG public key http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/reinout.asc
