problems using fixed window sizes

[John Summerfield]

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.

Have you tried connecting via vnc?

<snip


> 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

It's especially good fun for the user when there are two modal 
dialogues, and the one that's hidden has keyboard focus. It's very hard 
to click its button with the mouse.

> 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.

I had this problem a few minutes ago, on CentOS 5.3. I was just 
discovering konqueror's website debugging tools.






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