[ale] gnome desktop: icon size control

[Tim Watts]

Yes, I'm amazed at the pain windows users are willing to endure. I was at a 
coffee shop the other day and saw a fellow with a laptop that had a decent 15" 
screen. And in the center of this screen was a 10" square containing his 
windows desktop. I finally asked him why he had it way and he told me that's 
the way his friend set it up for him (to which I thought, did you sleep with 
his wife or something?) I did fix it for him but alas the video only seems to 
support two resolutions. So now he has a 13" square to look at.

My brother routinely complains about how poorly his windows machine performs. 
Everytime he wants to show me something he'll click on this or that and then 
we'll wait 30 seconds or more while half-painted windows cascade across the 
screen. He DID let me put linux on it a while back and was quite happy with it 
until I asked him to do something in a shell. He just flipped out and was 
horrified that there isn't a gui tool to do every nuanced task. I asked him if 
a support tech ever asked him to type ipconfig at a command prompt in windows 
but he didn't care. I guess some folks prefer their familiar pain over an 
unfamiliar solution.


On Sunday 09 August 2009 5:44:17 am Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat August 8 2009, Tim Watts wrote:
> > Bear in mind this machine has not been a sand box for endless software
> > experiments. Basically, she has QuickBooks and some flash-based
> > courseware installed (that's going to be a problem, linux-wise). I could
> > go on but I'm really more interested in an answer to my original
> > question. I do feel about 10 pounds lighter, however. Thanks for
> > listening if you read this far.
>
> yup, I know the feeling:)
> my home desktop is a Dell Debian ( dual-boot/XP that hasn't seen XP since
> XP SP2 came out). My older laptop that I used for work is an Dell XPS
> dual-boot XP & Ubuntu 9.10 ( I don't use it for work anymore..) I used it
> for work using XP & Quickbooks, but when i GOT to work I booted Ubuntu ( I
> installed Red hat systems)
>
> my WIFES new laptop is a Dell Inspiron that runs Vista.... she uses the
> desktop Debian system for email, browsing, etc, but WILL NOT let me put
> linux on the laptop. Yet she ALSO refuses to switch email programs from
> kmail to the laptop !!!! and I have to sit through the Vista boot cycles
> every few weeks to update her virus program & Vista....
> ARGGGGGGGGGGGgggggggggg!!
>
> I feel your pain:)

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