On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:40 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > FYI: See below.. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> > Date: 2008/12/17 > Subject: Help improve the desktop experience! Send screenshots of your > 1024x768 desktop > To: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> > > > Hi folks > > As part of our work on desktop experience and design, I'm collecting > screenshots of desktops in action. Please send me yours! Feel free to > send two or three, with browsers open or email clients or chat > windows, anything. I'm interested in seeing the diversity of > wallpapers, themes, panel configurations, window layouts in general > use. > > By and large I think I can promise to keep these confidential but I > would rather not have any sensitive info just in case. We will use > these for mockups to test different ideas, and if one of those mockups > got published I would not want to cause a problem for anyone! > > I specifically am looking for screenshots that are all the same size > so we can test ideas against multiple desktops simultaneously. I think > 1024x768 is probably the most widely used size of screen on laptops. I > don't mind screenshots of desktops in other sizes (they may be quite > useful) but having 10 or 20 shots in one size would be more useful > right now. >
Not too sure Marks assertion that 1024x768 is probably the most widely used size of screen on laptops is correct overall but is within the thinkpad fan base. I haven't had a laptop with a default of 1024x768 for years but 1280x800 and now 1440x900. I am wrong in my thoughts here? :-) Regards Phil
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