Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 00:57, Pixel wrote: this being said, most drakxtools do fit nicely in 640x480, it's only the control center which has such pb since it tries to display many things. A 640x480 mode to control center could be done, but we have many other things to do before this :-/ As I

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 23:49, Stephane SOPPERA wrote: Somehow, you could have move it with by pressing the ALT-key while draging it, no? So killing it was not really the only way. AOW! How did I not know about this before?! Thanks a lot, Stephane. *bounces away happily* -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Stephane SOPPERA
Frank Griffin wrote: In a related problem, I reported that my 1280x1024 display was coming up as 640x480. In trying to use the Hardware/Resolution area of MCC to check what I had entered, I found that the configuration window is so large that the selection boxes for OK/CANCEL are off the bottom

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Frank Griffin
Stephane SOPPERA wrote: Somehow, you could have move it with by pressing the ALT-key while draging it, no? So killing it was not really the only way. I'm not quite up to speed with Unix GUIs, and didn't realize that (thanks to the other person who pointed this out as well). I just reported

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Hello Pixel, On 10 Aug 2002, Pixel wrote: i think this is mainly a won't fix. X is not really usable in 640x480 As someone with a more-than-average interest in usability, I must frown on this. If your dialog doesnt fit in 640x480, then probably you need to redesign it... Furthermore there can

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Pixel
Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As someone with a more-than-average interest in usability, I must frown on this. If your dialog doesnt fit in 640x480, then probably you need to redesign it... Furthermore there can be all kinds of reasons someone is running in 640x480, for

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Friday 09 August 2002 06:47 pm, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Of course, the idea that a window could be larger than the max visible area is completely silly and this shouldnt be possible at all! Why? You can use virtual screen space and/or ALT-drag to access whatever you need in the window.

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Felix Miata
Frank Griffin wrote: In a related problem, I reported that my 1280x1024 display was coming up as 640x480. In trying to use the Hardware/Resolution area of MCC to check what I had entered, I found that the configuration window is so large that the selection boxes for OK/CANCEL are off the

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center unusable at 640x480

2002-08-09 Thread Felix Miata
Reinout van Schouwen wrote: On 10 Aug 2002, Pixel wrote: i think this is mainly a won't fix. X is not really usable in 640x480 As someone with a more-than-average interest in usability, I must frown on this. If your dialog doesnt fit in 640x480, then probably you need to redesign