Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:49 +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
> Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 10:15 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> > Oh god, no.
> > 
> > How does a text editor 'know' how big a window 'needs' to be to
> > display
> > a 500 page document (or a 10,000 line source code file)? It can't fit
> > on
> > one screen. I like to have it in a full-screen window at 1680x1050. I
> > know people who think I'm insane and think you should never display
> > text
> > more than 80 characters wide as it's 'unreadable'. Am I right? Are
> > they
> > right? Which of us would you like this new intelligent window manager
> > to
> > piss off?
> > 
> > That's just the first case that springs to mind. Terminals, as Thomas
> > points out, are another good one. Browsers; again, it comes down to
> > text
> > flow. I like a full-screen browser window, lots of people think this
> > makes lines of text way too wide. Neither of us is correct or
> > incorrect. 
> 
> (sorry if I feed the troll...)
> 
> If the window size can be adapted to its content, it should be smart. If
> the window adapted is > than the available size on the display, it will
> adapt itself to the available size. 

But that only makes me happy. It doesn't make the people who think a
full-screen window is too big to read text on happy.
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