Does anyone do serious software development on anything less than 1024x768? I've been using 1280x1024 for ages, and I know many people that use even higher. I'm not sure it's reasonable or worth the development time and effort to ensure that a modern IDE runs in 800x600.
"Carlos Costa e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message adipsv$66i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:adipsv$66i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I *hate* dialogs with scrollbars. They are *bad* UI design. > > I disagree. I hate it when a property dialog like idea "IDE Options" > occupies all the screen real estate and can't be resized to show other > windows at the same time. > > > I say tweak the UI to make the dialog fit the screen or re-organise the > > dialog into separate tabs or something so that less vertical space is > > needed. > > What tweak? > More scrollpanes or more entries in the list at the left? > Then each panel will have far fewer fields. > Then the 99.9% of users that have screens with more than 800x600 will have > to use lots of entries and each one will have half the screen space wasted! > > There's no way - without a LOT of work (multiple dialog designs for the each > screen size) - of having the UI fit all screen sizes. > Either you design to a small screen and there's a lot of wasted space on > bigger screens or the inverse. > > It's possible to have frames/dialogs with everything inside a scrollpane and > with a little care in the desing/programming the scrollbars dont appear when > the frmae/dialog is shown (if theres enough screen real estate:). > > My apps are designed for 800x640 and/or 1024x768, but they are still usable > in 640x480 screens - the Ok and Cancel buttons are always shown and can > always be clicked, no detail of frames/dialogs is hidden because they don't > fit on the screen. > > I prefer idea to be designed to bigger screens - 1024x768 is reasonable at > the moment - and the possibility to use smaller screens be there through > scrollbars than have a mess of a design only to support small screens. > > > Ciao, > > Gordon > > Carlos > > > _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
