Hello David, On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David Walser wrote:
> > Or redesigning them to be usable in 640x480. I'm not > You're being totally unreasonable. If someone's got a I'm sorry that you find me acting unreasonable, I have no such intention. > monitor so crappy that they can't even run at 800x600, > they use a different frontend to the draktools. At the risk of repeating myself, two points: 1. Being able to run at 800x600 doesn't necessarily mean someone actually uses that resolution. Is it so difficult to see that, as long as a user can switch resolution to 640x480 using mcc, he should be able to revert back using that same tool?! 2. Requiring different frontends makes things more complicated than needed, thus putting off users on the one hand, and generating support requests on the other. It's details like these why reviewers keep saying that Mandrake always has a little "unfinished" feel about it. > are covered by at least one frontend, so nobody can > bitch about their machine not being supported. You are effectively saying that a user running at 640x480 should use a different frontend. Then why doesn't launching mcc in a low resolution automatically switch to framebuffer (DrakX) mode to enable the user to change his settings instead of forcing him to find out about the different frontends himself? > Are you gonna whine and complain to us when you find Gnome and Evolution > unusable on a P133 with 16MB RAM??? I sure hope not. Doesn't mean No, but that's totally besides the point. We're discussing a *configuration tool* here, which almost by definition needs to support the lowest common denominator. 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
