On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 00:08 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:40:35PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:00 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > Hi Desktop SIG, > > > > > > When I talked to someone with an EeePC today, he told me he wanted to > > > have Fedora 11 but had to install another OS, because Fedora would > > > sometimes draw windows whose action areas weren't on the screen, so he > > > couldn't make button selections. I don't have a netbook, so I don't > > > know if or how this problem might be solved, and was hoping someone > > > could tell me. > > > > Probably an EeePC 7" where running a "normal" desktop is completely > > absurd. I don't think that any other distros are making particular > > changes to make that easier. > > Yeah, I don't know about standard desktop editions of common distros, > but he showed me the unit, running a netbook remix that made a > specific change that completely alters the desktop. It hides the > normal desktop in favor of a menu driven system, and windows that are > opened are force-maximized (sorry if that's the wrong term). I'm not > suggesting that's the right way to go, just wondering if there's > any potential solution so the standard Fedora runs more acceptably for > those users. That's what the Ubuntu Netbook Remix uses (a row and grid menu system and "maximus" which maximises all the windows, and gets it wrong very often). > > Things like disabling the text in toolbars, or selecting smaller fonts > > would certainly help. > > Strangely enough, one of the more interesting comments I got from > a couple people was that fonts were legible on their netbooks in > Fedora 11 (unlike other distros they had tried) because of larger > fonts! > > > But, really, 800x480?! That's even smaller than the 800x600 that people > > try not to break. > > Sure -- I'm not saying it's not a difficult problem. If we had to > have some sort of special experience for netbooks, would it be > possible to customize that into something like a schema package that > reset a bunch of normal defaults? The story here is probably the Moblin spin that Peter Robinson is helping build. Right now, he's busy getting the packages into the distro. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
