[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on less sizeable screens?

[Kris Douglas]

On 13/12/2007, James Grabham <jgrabham at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Use the alternate installer??
>
> Text based installers should work fine
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 PM, Kris Douglas <kris at softdel.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Hi, I have been reading about seeing Ubuntu running on the EEE pc and
> > it's come to my attention that there is a problem with the screen size of
> > the installer and some of the main configuration windows. I have also
> > experienced this on some of the much older hardware that I own, where I have
> > to drag the window off the screen to access the button to continue.
> >
> > I was just wondering if it would be possible to scale the size of the
> > windows of the installer, or automatically scale the fonts to fit the screen
> > size, as a couple of people i know have had quite a lot of difficulty
> > getting their head around this problem on smaller displays. Just a couple of
> > points that I wanted to bring up, I don't imagine it's possible
> > automatically without re making the installer for Ubuntu, which is high end
> > stuff, but you know, just something to put to the people...
> >
> > --
> > Kris Douglas
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> >
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> >       Mail: kris at softdel.net
> > --
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> > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
>
>

...Tell that to someone that is scared of the run command in windows... This
person would think it wasn't working properly, i like the text based
installer actually, but that's not what I was focusing on mostly, the thing
I was focusing on was the fact that some of the actual settings panels like
mythbuntu etc. don't actually fit on either...


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Kris Douglas
      Softdel Limited Hosting Services

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      Mail: kris at softdel.net
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