On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:16:15 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > I agree. A color depth is something you typically choose once,
Hi Nadav, 1. I don't care if it's once or a thousand times, read my original post. I just want to be able to do it *easily*. Where "easily" is defined for an average desktop user and an "average desktop user" looks for a graphical way of doing things, not by editing obscure text files. 2. The "having to reboot" issue I raised has nothing to do with doing it on the fly. As you noted, it's irritating when Windows makes you do it when installing software, but it is just as irritating when Linux makes you reboot... If you tell me it is part of the way X is built, I guess I have to accept this, but I don't have to like it, either. 3. While bashing MS is fun :-), by doing it you're evading acknowledging that Linux has a real problem, and when you do that, as a developer, you're simply making Linux that much weaker by refusing to try to solve a bug. And BTW, WindowsXP rarely makes me reboot after software installation - games, editors, other typical user software I can install without a reboot. OS patches require a reboot, but let you continue working if you want to - the patch will simply not take hold until you do. This is also the way Firefox works when installing Themes and Extensions, so if you accept the second you really should accept the first... Tzafrir wrote: > You always have a simpler workaround, you know: start a second X server > with different settings. Hi Tzafrir, You have a very strange definition of "simpler"... :-) See my item (1), above. -- Offer Kaye ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
