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[Philipp Wendler <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am 28.06.2010 03:25, schrieb Frederik Nnaji:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:43, Philipp Wendler<ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > Don't forget that there are users that do not always maximize their
> > windows. This will be even more common in the future, because it doesn't
> > make sense to maximize firefox etc. on a 24" screen. The only application I
> > ever maximize on such a screen is Eclipse.
>
> 24" ? good point there!
> on my 10" i maximize everything except for Contact List, which i expect to
> be an indicator menu at some point, hopefully.
Yes, I think it is very important for an OS nowadays to work with a wide 
range of screen sizes (and make use of it!). On the one hand there are a 
lot of mobile devices with small screens, but on the other hand a lot of 
people still use desktop PCs (probably almost all office users), and 
there screen sizes are increasing (24" screens are really cheap today).
> > I often resize terminals, editors and evince and arrange them so that I can
> > view all of them, for example when looking at a manual or a paper, doing
> > something on the command line and writing some text about it.
> would resizing in a grid not help with all this? It would be easier to snap
> application windows to each other this way. It would also make resizing
> faster in general as far as i can imagine.
Actually I'm not that happy with the current situation of manually 
resizing and moving the windows. When I still had 19" screens, I used to 
maximize all important applications and not think much about window 
management, and I really had to train myself to adapt to a different 
usage style.
So I would like to see ways to make window placement easier. Do you know 
anything that I could try?
Greetings, Philipp