Orn E. Hansen wrote:
Sunnudaginn 4 júní 2006 20:55 skrifaði suse@rio.vg:
As a desktop to be gawked at, it's very pretty. Usability? Not so much.
Back in the days, when 640x480 or 800x600 was standard, looking at maximized windows was "maybe" the way to go. I've got a 1440x900 window here, and there are those who have a 1600x1000, or better, where having some Firefox window maximized is a waste of window space. More to the point, it is a waste of the concept of "windowing". Running on maximized windows, is the concept of those who never left the good old MS-DOS days, or consoles. There's only one thing in the window. The rest of us have many windows running, on one screen. We flip between windows ... do one thing in one, and another in the next. Just like now ... what is the point of having KMail maximized in a 1440x900 window? You think I'm gonna see it better with all the useless space that only shows the background color?
More to the point, dual screen is common today ... and even pivoting of the screen. And a 1900x1200 screens are getting more common as we speak, yeah people are even using 24" monitors ... tiled windows or maximized windows. That's a waste of the windowing technology.
That's why I said "maximized or tiled". I have one of those 1920x1200 laptops. For firefox, I have firefox and two terminals taking up the screen. Tiled is the _opposite_ of wasted space... Leaving half the screen showing the desktop below is a waste. In my case, I have 6 virtual desktops, two of them are filled with terminal windows, one has Konqueror + 2 terminals, one has firefox + 2 terminals, thunderbird gets it's own, taking up the whole 1920x1200 in three panes (folders, headers, content). The last desktop is used for irregular shaped apps I need, like XMMS or Realplayer or whatever. Multi-head is even more maximize centric. Generally you'll maximize one app on each monitor (or in my case, tiled terminals/gkrell's)... I also load up apps on top of the ones above, as needed. I would certainly not suggest that "tiled is all you'll ever need" or anything like that. However, tile or maximized is the most efficient way to set things up, and the way most people actually use machines. We don't use the machines for the window manager, we use the window manager to manage the apps that we actually use... Virtually every experimental system I'm seen keeps turning that around. They want the window manager to be the center of attention and the actual apps to be almost an afterthought. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com