Re: Installer question

[Andre Bleau <bleau at igb dot umontreal dot ca>]

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>   Couple of comments on the installer:
> >>
> >>   - Does it have to be non-resizable?  It's REALLY a pain to keep
> >> scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window
> >
> >Yes, it does.  The version of the installer currently distributed off the
> >main Cygwin web site (v2.416) is non-resizeable and will forever stay that
> >way[*].  There are a bunch of long discussions on both the main Cygwin
> >list and the cygwin-apps list as to why it has to be so.
>
> I thought we agreed that we'd change it to be resizable to a 3.1 inch window
> if there was a lot of interest in that.  Then when everyone got used to that,
> we'd make a 3.2 inch window available.  We'd time these carefully at six month
> intervals so as not to alarm anyone.
>
> Then by 2010 we'd have something like a 4.4 inch window available.
>
> "A 4.4 inch window should be enough for anyone."
>
> And you can quote me on that.
>
> cgf

Anon,

You could outsmart cgf by buying a larger monitor. What appears as a 3-inch 
window on a 15-inch monitor would be 4.5-inch on a 22-inch screen. By 2010, 
45-inch monitors will be common place, and setup's chooser will thus be 
(wow!) 9 inches wide; that's double what cgf is promising you!

;->



André Bleau, Cygwin's OpenGL package maintainer.

Please address all questions and problem reports about Cygwin's OpenGL 
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