On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:39, Doug wrote:
On 03/17/2011 04:22 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 18:48 -0500, Nick LeRoy wrote:
Just curious,
What should i choose for a small netbook with 10" display? Currently (default) 11.2 installed, but wife complains that it is unworkable.
What about it is unworkable? Too slow? Doesn't like the screen layout?
Not so much speed, her previous machine was a via, but see saw a aspire one with just a sdd, so it should be faster.
I think the screen layout is the issue. Got the impression that programmers think that we all have a 42 inch display with extreme high resolution. (slightly exegerated...)
But i got the idea that there was a specially crafted netbook version in which icons, menu-bars, etc etc didn't take much of the available display-area
hence my question.
I may be overlooking something, but if you're running KDE, you can change the size of the icons by click and drag on the diagonal corner of the plasmoid, or whatever it's called. I think you can change the height of the systray also. Maybe nothing you can do with the menu panels. Of course, by changing the screen resolution, you can make everything smaller all at once, but sometimes it gets too small to read comfortably!
I'm using KDE4.6 on a netbook (1024x600 resolution) and am not having any application size issues at all that would be solved by installing a "netbook" edition. There are some dialogs that simply won't fit in the low resolution, but... moving to a netbook edition does nothing at all for fixing that problem. Maybe Android? :-) There is an Android for EEE iso available. I've tried it... you only have access to applications that run on Android though... but in trade off you get an interface that fits. Seriously though, it's not a practical choice. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org