On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David <dgboles(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/26/2009 10:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
> Forgive the rant that follows...
>
> This isn't F12 specific. As a matter of fact, I was just trying to do some
> 'packaging' development and SELinux on F11 when it bit me. F12 and
> its apps have the same issues, and its not even Fedora specific.
> Now don't ask why I was doing it, its not relevant, but...
>
> While doing my work, I'm using a virtual machine, (VirtualBox right now)
> and it presents a nice window for Fedora to present itself into.
> The trouble is that VirtualBox's display is not a very high resolution window.
> Thats OK, I can live with that. The problem comes when there are
> applications that throw up windows that are of fixed size, and don't
> have scroll bars!
>
> For example, system-config-selinux. Using a limited resolution screen
> the policy generation tool draws a window thats wider than the screen.
> And unfortunately that places options and button on the window past
> its right hand boundary.
Three related questions:
1) Have you installed the GuestAdditions?
Nope, but I have now, and I'll look into it.
2) Have you switched to the fullscreen display mode?
Nope, but I see in the documentation that there is a way
to reconfig the OS to take advantage of 'full screen mode'.
(Just going into full screen mode isn't enough.)
3) Did you actually read the instructions? :-)
As an co-worker said ~25 years ago:
"If you have to read the book... its too damn complicated.".
I've used that as a design guideline ever since, along with:
"If you have to ask me a question... I didn't do my job right."
... snip ...
But in the end, my rant isn't with VirtualBox,
its with the application developers.