This looks like violent agreement. (It's perhaps worth noting that if
you change the first word here from "No" to "Yes" that the idea being
expressed does not change.)
Thanks,
--
Raul
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 1:35 PM Patrick Harper <paianni@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> 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
> >
>
No comments:
Post a Comment