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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: "Daniel Kabs" <daniel DOT kabs AT mobotix DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Setup.exe sugestion/annoyance
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 20:34:40 +0100
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> From: Daniel Kabs
> 
> He Rob,
> 
> I guess you are the culprit who committed this
> crime against usability!

Rob (and others) have worked *extreamly* hard on this.

> On Wednesday 21 May 2003 14:50, Rob wrote:
> > Oh, for crying out loud. You really have no clue do you.
> >
> > Go grab a 640x480 monitor, and then you'll see why it's the size it is.
> 
> But that's NO reason why the window is not resizable!

No, it's not, but LACK OF TIME IS.

> Mind you, I did not complain about the windows *size* but the windows
> inability to be resized *manually* by the user (if he e.g. is 
> sitting in front
> of a nice 1280x1024 LCD display and, sorry, has no 640x480 monitor
> around).
> 
> Go and add some resizing borders, will you?

To repeat an earlier quote...

It's OPEN SOURCE.  DO IT YOURSELF.

J.

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