Chris Green wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:11:07PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Also a lot of Windows users I know don't tend to multitask...they will fullscreen one application and work on that, finish save their work and close it...open something else.
Yes, I find that wierd too, the number of people who run everything full screen. One of the basic powers of a GUI is multiple overlapping (or maybe tiled) windows and many users aviod using it!
I think that is a matter of opinion/perception. I personally prefer to have whatever I am actually working on at full screen as a rule. I cannot stand overlapped or tiled windows because I can never find the one I want. I really dislke apps lke GIMP that open a plethora of windows too. I simply have four desktop each with a full screen application in it. This partly because of the type of application I tend to use (EDA) but also because I have never joined the must have the best resolution display possible brigade and use XGA. The only desktop that does not have a full screen app is the one with several tabbed consoles. Now tabbing I do like, especially when editing multiple files (at full screen of course).
And as for multi-tasking, in reality very little of it occurs on the average PC.
Ian