On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:58, Gerard Patel wrote: > At 08:37 PM 1/27/03 +0000, you (Adam Williamson) wrote: > > >Well, don't urpmi gaim, cos Mandrake's still using 0.59, and CVS is way > >better (0.60) =). You're still sort of right as regards 0.60, though - > >it does use a fixed size preferences window. Which is odd, because I was > >referring to the contact list, which *does* dynamically include or > >remove scrollbars (for instance, with just a few people logged on my > >contact list has no scrollbars, but if a bunch more log on and they no > >longer fit in the window, I get a vertical scrollbar). > > A list is another story; a list is completely useless without scrolling > so it _has_ to be implemented anyway, even if your screen is > an Ibm T221. Some Mandrake tools have scrollbars too to handle > lists, like drakservices for example.
Well, yes, and drakconf etc. are currently "completely useless" to those of us with low resolution screens. For the same reason. Sure it's a smaller set, but so what? Microsoft can get away with endlessly upping hardware requirements and pandering to a bare majority, Linux vendors can't... -- adamw
