First impression of Vista

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:34AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:38:37PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> This is a bug, but not a driver bug - a design team bug.  The default 
>> insert cursor is set to a single pixel wide, and with screen hinting that 
>> means that it disappears for some displays.  This is a "top 10" migration 
>> question for most users, and you can set the insert cursor arbitrarily
>> wide, if you know where to look.
>
>Could it be someone has an LCD screen set to the wrong resolution and
>the scaling is making such small things disappear?

Yes, I believe that is it exactly.  I'm perfectly happy to have Vista
drive people to (drink) Linux, but I think this one is just an example
of why UI decisions are hard - I see similar wrong-headedness in the
major desktops for Linux too.
-- 

yours,

William
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