Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

Our ideas of the setup process aren't equal so I disagree.

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Patrick Harper
paianni@fastmail.com

On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 18:16, Raul Miller wrote:
> 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.)
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> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
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> 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
> > >
> >
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