On 10/26/2009 10:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > Forgive the rant that follows... > > This isn't F12 specific. As a matter of fact, I was just trying to do some > 'packaging' development and SELinux on F11 when it bit me. F12 and > its apps have the same issues, and its not even Fedora specific. > Now don't ask why I was doing it, its not relevant, but... > > While doing my work, I'm using a virtual machine, (VirtualBox right now) > and it presents a nice window for Fedora to present itself into. > The trouble is that VirtualBox's display is not a very high resolution window. > Thats OK, I can live with that. The problem comes when there are > applications that throw up windows that are of fixed size, and don't > have scroll bars! > > For example, system-config-selinux. Using a limited resolution screen > the policy generation tool draws a window thats wider than the screen. > And unfortunately that places options and button on the window past > its right hand boundary. Three related questions: 1) Have you installed the GuestAdditions? 2) Have you switched to the fullscreen display mode? 3) Did you actually read the instructions? :-) > <rant on> > > Either window managers should auto-draw windows that can't fit on the display > so that they contain scroll bars, or the developers must be made smart > enough so they know _they_ have to do it. (When I develop GUIs, my windows > are smart enough to auto-draw the scroll bars if the window doesn't fit on > the display.) > > I suppose while I'm ranting... lets delve into "WHY is everyone defining > their dialog boxes and other windows as 'modal windows?" Rarely if > ever, does a window really need to be modal! I can't tell you how many > times I've encountered a window where I need to go to another window > to determine the answer. But the damn modal window prevents me from > doing it. You have to back out of what your doing... find the answer... > then go forwards again, to get to the point of answering the original question. > > ARGH! It feels as though I'm using freak'in Windows. > Unix GUI apps _used_ to be _so_ much more friendlier. :-( > > <rant off> > > Fulko > -- David
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