Hello David, On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David Walser wrote:
> > can switch resolution to 640x480 using mcc, he should be able to > > revert back using that same tool?! > > True enough. The fact is though that they can. They > can use a different frontend. I'm sorry, but you're missing the point entirely. This is very basic HCI theory: Forgive the user. Let him undo a change easily. See for instance: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/usabilityprinciples.html#forgive-the-user In this case it means that when a user performs operations X, Y and Z to change his screen resolution, he can reasonably expect that the same chain of operations will enable him to change back. In your view, the user is just out of luck and will have to smell somehow that he has to perform operations F, G and H to revert his change. Various suggestions have been done here already to alleviate this problem, I suggest that one of them is chosen (automatic switch to framebuffer mode sounds good to me, but I don't know if that's feasible). > > 2. Requiring different frontends makes things more complicated than > > needed, thus putting off users on the one hand, and generating support > No, having more frontends has more machines, more people's needs, and > more people's tastes and configurations that we can't think of Look, I'm not suggesting to _remove_ the other ways of configuring things, but only to make the way that's most likely to be used by most inexperienced users work WELL. I don't believe that is too much to ask. > not, is really easy to program. Adding this neat idea would take a lot > more work, and probably isn't worth all of the effort right now. Mandrake has been great in making Linux ready for end users, but to really get there takes effort. *I* think it is worth the effort, do you? (Before you suggest that I submit a patch; I do my share in making sure the Dutch translations of the Mandrake tools are complete and valid). regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen Artificial Intelligence student email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 GPG public key http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/reinout.asc
