[Gambas-user] Best desktop manager to run Gambas

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 15 mai 2007, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > Users should report any of these little problems, as I don't see them on
> > my Mandriva system, this distribution being careful with these sort of
> > configuration problems.
>
> Another distro that I'm getting on my target is Mandriva...
> Can I ask some questions?
> Which DM do you use? Gnome or KDE?

KDE.

> How is the availability of software?
> Is it easy to install proprietary/restricted packages (as the ones
> needed to play MP3/DVDs?).

Mandriva software management is based on RPMs. These RPMs are stored in 
repositories (or "media") on Internet, and are managed by a tool 
named 'urpmi', that is as powerful as what you can find on Debian.

Go to http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia to have a list of all 
Mandriva repositories. 

You will notice that non-free software are put in "non-free" repositories.

There are special repositories made by the Penguin Liberation Front (aka PLF). 
You will find them by a bit of Google. These repositories contains Mandriva 
packages that are not legal in some countries because of licence 
restrictions, stupid laws and/or software patents.

> Thanks in advance.
>
> > Gambas does not use screen resolution to scale its form, because its aim
> > is not having the same absolute form size between screen resolution, but
> > following what the user needs to see: Users having difficulties to see
> > and/or read usually use a higher font size. So Gambas uses the absolute
> > desktop default font height and not the screen resolution to scale its
> > forms. It uses that as sort of zoom factor.
>
> Yes, I know.
> But I think it would be better is there could be a kind of aspect ratio
> lock, so if I choose to draw a 400x400 pixels form with a label of font
> size set to 10, every user that uses my program would see the same things.

In the last revisions, you can specify that a form should not be scaled 
according to the desktop default font, by using the "(Scaled)" property in 
the IDE property sheet.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini