Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are you just wilfully ignoring the actual experience that's been
> posted to this list? For the fourth time, I use a laptop. It's
> perfectly powerful enough to run KDE or GNOME (I use GNOME). Because
> it's a cunning small laptop, it has a half-height screen, whose
> resolution is 1024x480. The biggest obstacle to using Mandrake on
> this laptop is the fact the most Mandrake tools use large windows
> with no scrollbars. This is a fixable problem.
No it isn't. at least not easily.
i've used scrolled windows and viewports in the past in tests, and
these widgets're basically often unusable.
look at draksec bug on click on pull-down menus.
or remember the scrolling bugs of pre mdk9.0 harddrake2 ?
too few gtk+ widget have native scrolling support.
so as i have stated to people who directly mailed me :
- if screen resolution is at least 800x600, then one can use embedded
apps. note than for some tools, i'have to hide the logdrake logs.
- if one has a smaller screen, a lot of tools will fits, but drakxconf
shall be used instead of drakconf.
the difference being that drakxconf use the interactive widget that
enable to use text and http frontends whereas drakconf is a pure
gtk+ app.
so when one hasn't enough space, one can:
- use drakxconf
- use tools in text mode (so no harddrake, ...)
btw: having *ONE* tool usable at 640x480 resolution does *NOT* imply
it'll still fits when embedded in the mcc, where there'll be "mcc
decorations" around it plus logdrake plug for the logs.
one uses the right tool in the right place.
there're http and text frontends for most important tools.
this is always the same debat as:
- rpm vs urpmi vs rpmdrake/MandrakeUpdate
- kde vs icewm/wm/...
- links-graphic vs mozilla
- ...
