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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] Re: KDE screen resolution policy
From:       "Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau" <Friedrich.W.H () Kossebau ! de>
Date:       2004-01-02 21:13:22
Message-ID: 200401022213.22800.Friedrich.W.H () Kossebau ! de
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Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 21:41 schrieb Harijs Buss:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 22:01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau rakstija:
> > Users living where...? Do not forget that there are large parts of the
> > world where I expect even an old P100 to be close to luxury. Users there
> > might not like it to be forgotten.
>
> Monitors have limited life time. Really old monitors, not capable to show
> more than 640*480, have almost totally died out by now.  Haven't seen any
> for several years at least. 

I have. It's in a cupboard (uhm, whatever dei18n("Schrank") is)  next room. 
Last year it once again sucessfully jumped in as a temporary solution to one 
of those "optimized" ;) monitors and even survived several unplanned 
800x600@70Hz attacks :)

> Monitors are aging even if simply kept in
> warehouse - electrolytic capacitors are drying out etc.  It's interesting
> that some monochrome text-only  green-on-black monitors are still alive and
> functioning, probably because they made them very durable these times...
> Later everything was "optimized" and has much shorter life span.

Okay, I surely miss the big picture so you may be right and this argument is 
void.

Have to stick with the remote mobile palm computer login then. And, I am 
serious about that :)

Friedrich
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