No, the installation program should make setup as easy as possible. The idea of a common development platform for X being suited only for circa 100dpi screens in 2019 is ludicrous. Making users pore through half-a-dozen man pages and config files to make their X systems usable on hidpi screens is ludicrous.
-- Patrick Harper [email protected] On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 16:58, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > Patrick Harper wrote on Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:50:54PM +0100: > > > I think OpenBSD could be made easier to set up for GUI applications > > if some configuration that is currently done in files could be moved > > to the install program. > > I very strongly oppose the idea. > > > These questions (or similar) could be shown > > Absolutely not. The installer should ask as few questions as possible, > ideally none whatsoever. *That* is a way to simplify setup. > > The topics you mention have nothing to do with installation. > They are merely low-importance user configuration that can be done > at any time if desired. But almost no user will ever have to consider > any of those; i certainly didn't, ever, and i have been using many > OpenBSD computers for almost two decades now, including with a wide > variety of GUI applications. > > Yours, > Ingo >
