Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

[Yuval Levy <gnome08 sfina com>]

Olav Vitters wrote:
> Glade audience is developers, who can be expected to have access to
> bigger screens. For documentation purposes the screenshot is also very
> small.

even on a 2560x1024, screen real estate is scarce and should not be wasted.


> focus first on more user visible programs.


screenshots of a user app at 
http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/gnome-is-too-big-indeed/

on a 2560x1024 display. same app, once in Windows and once in Gnome.

I experience the same with Firefox (less browsing space in Gnome), with 
Thunderbird (more spacing in the list of recipient) and any other app.

Gnome / Ubuntu default theme wastes a lot of scarce and very valuable 
screen real estate to an average user with 20/20 vision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity

those with better than average suffer even more.

Yuv