Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 June 2006 10:33, Alvaro Kuolas wrote:
> It's useless a big monitor for a SOHO, on the design field: it's
> necessary.

Hi Alvaro,

SOHO users are as diverse as any other base. In fact, it isn't unusual to find 
them 'juggling' marcom, accounting and crm/sales/support functions with fewer 
staff. What this says to me is there's a great deal to be gained, 
particularly by smaller firms, by incorporating multiple virtual high 
definition desktops... which I define as the ability to view at least two 
complete print-format or scanned documents on-screen at the same time)... 
even combined with multi-head functionality, as you've stated, in cases where 
the user's applications warrant it.

> For me, I use MAXIMIZED Windows on Virtual Desktops (six of them).

Just like me, but I've trimmed it down to four (any more usually just go 
unused. ) I'll definitely jump to multi-head the first time a project 
requirement justifies it! ;-)

> I like the picture of "(Screenshot of a Desktop)^6"

Thanks! It was fun.

> But, I noted that your windows are for the same job. I can't mix windows
> from different tasks.

I'm not clear on what you mean here. Of course I mix and match displayed 
processes across virtual desktops, but I can only do captures one at a 
time. :-) I generally use one for the 'reception/marcom area' (IM, VOIP, 
chat/irc, surfing, efax, e-mail) one for 'admin' (file management, shells & 
utilities, ftp client, etc.) and two for 'creative' (each split between 
production & preview/proofreading) which is OK for up to two projects. If I 
run out of space, I just add another virtual desktop until the workload 
justifies dropping back to four.

Thanks for your comments!

Carl

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