Re: Some questions raised by 131010

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Callum McKenzie wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:31:45 +1300
> From: Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Some questions raised by 131010
>
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 17:55 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > Developers and designers should try and be inclusive, and by creating
> > designs that won't work well on 800x600 diplays you risk excluding 30% *
> > of potential users.
> Just to agree with this point, it was less than two years ago that
> gnome-games was getting bugs complaining about windows being too big for
> a 640x480 display. All the games have a default size that is usable at
> 640x480.

I may well have been one of the people complaining (although I was stuck
at 800x600) because even the applications that took into account the
desktop sizes often failed to take into account the panels (or window
decorations which varied depending on some themes) which could give a
640x480 display an effective size more like 600x400.

- Alan