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.
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Patrick Harper
paianni@fastmail.com
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
>
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