On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:49 +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote: > Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 10:15 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > Oh god, no. > > > > How does a text editor 'know' how big a window 'needs' to be to > > display > > a 500 page document (or a 10,000 line source code file)? It can't fit > > on > > one screen. I like to have it in a full-screen window at 1680x1050. I > > know people who think I'm insane and think you should never display > > text > > more than 80 characters wide as it's 'unreadable'. Am I right? Are > > they > > right? Which of us would you like this new intelligent window manager > > to > > piss off? > > > > That's just the first case that springs to mind. Terminals, as Thomas > > points out, are another good one. Browsers; again, it comes down to > > text > > flow. I like a full-screen browser window, lots of people think this > > makes lines of text way too wide. Neither of us is correct or > > incorrect. > > (sorry if I feed the troll...) > > If the window size can be adapted to its content, it should be smart. If > the window adapted is > than the available size on the display, it will > adapt itself to the available size.
But that only makes me happy. It doesn't make the people who think a full-screen window is too big to read text on happy. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
