Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Dick Porter <dick ximian com>]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com> writes: 
> > I read this as saying, "Application authors should write complex logic
> > to deal with every possible situation so that we, as platform
> > designers, do not have to do so.  If it does not do this then it is
> > 'broken and smoking crackrock'."
> > 
> > Is this incorrect?
> > 
> 
> Yes. On every other platform apps are expected to adapt to small
> screen size. 

By default, sure.

> 
> While viewports are a fine workaround for an app that can't be made to
> fit on 800x600, using an app across multiple viewports certainly sucks
> more than having a scrollbar in the app. I'd definitely consider it an
> application bug if I _had_ to use viewports to use the app.

Again, by default.  The cases I listed were where I chose to make the
application (or terminal) oversized, and was able to thanks to application
windows leaking into adjacent "screens".

- Dick