Hallo,
You have created some nice shots ;-) - The small distribution Gentoo
(www.gentoo.org) have all these aspects better configured. I wondered about
Mandrake. Mandrake want to sell the distributen more to home users, I think.
Your suggestions about Apache, PHP and so on are ok but if you want more home
users, first the desktop must be ok.
Sebastian
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Am Dienstag, 24. April 2001 11:09 schrieben Sie:
> Hi!
>
> I'd really like to know why MandrakeSoft never did anything about the fixed
> font in KDE, nor the minimum font size in Konqueror.
>
> Besides, did you consider that your default icon arrangement would look bad
> on non-English desktops?
>
> These are all *small* things that were easy to fix. Linux-Mandrake 8.0 is a
> nice distro with Apache, php, mysql, proftp and all working fine, but you
> can never under-estimate the first *visual* impression a new user gets.
>
> After installing 8.0 this is how Mandrake's homepage looks in Konqueror:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8konq.png
>
> It would have been easily fixed by setting the minimum font size to at
> least 10, preferably 11. I told you that *many* times during the betas.
>
> This is how the icons are arranged the first time you open KDE on a
> non-English desktop:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8icons.png
>
> The Trashcan has naturally moved to the left, leaving the user with an
> over-all impression of randomly scattered icons.
>
> And this is the most appalling thing: The fixed font. I'm sure there's a
> good reason why you decided to ignore the numerous requests to change the
> fixed font. This is how KWrite looks, out-of-box in Linux-Mandrake 8.0:
>
> http://www.du.se/~mda/mdk8fixed.png
>
> Please, I can't sleep at night. I need to know why MandrakeSoft did this,
> despite all the suggestions made on the Cooker mailing list. Those little
> things are oh so important, you know.
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
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