On Sunday 23 January 2005 14:15, Offer Kaye wrote:
> 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.
>
I think many distributions give you GUI utilities to customize the XF86Config
file. That's not the problem.
> 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.
>
I don't distaste this fact. I never had to change the colour depth in the
middle of an X session, and I have no problem in closing all the X
applications to restart X.
> 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.
This is not a real problem of Linux. Most video cards these days ship with
enough memory to allow you to run the videocard in 24 bpp (or 32 bpp - don't
know) with as high a screen resolution as you please. So you configure it
once and then don't touch it later.
And this is not a "bug". It may be a limitation, but not 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.
Likewise, you can change the colour depth on Linux, but it doesn't take effect
until you restart the X. (not reboot)
I, for the record, vividly recall that a lot of programs I installed in
Windows back then, required a reboot. Maybe this is no longer the case with
WinXP and more modern software, but it was. And it never was the case for
Linux and other UNIXes.
I should also note that WinXP with Service Pack 2 has given my family a lot of
unexplainable and hard to resolve problems and annoyances. Such things don't
happen with my Mandrake Linux 10.1 installation.
> This is also the way Firefox works when installing
> Themes and Extensions, so if you accept the second you really should
> accept the first...
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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