Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dick Porter <dick ximian com> writes: 
> 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".
> 

Right, I understand that this can be useful sometimes. I just can't
get over the fact that all Windows and Mac users (i.e. 90-something
percent of desktop users) and also many UNIX users (e.g. me and all
KDE or twm users) get by fine without ever using the feature...

If the issue is desire to have a big app and navigate around it
easily, some really silly little feature like a keybinding that moved
an app around in screen-size increments would be a lot less intrusive
and overall design-impacting than adding viewports. I don't know about
that solution but maybe something like that. If the whole problem is
viewing big apps, viewports say "overengineering" to me.

Havoc