On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 03:50:54PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
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).
What I use multiple windows for very often is referring to one file (or other inforamtion) while editing another. This can be done by flipping from one screen to another but that's usually more time consuming and messy than having both on the same screen.
What I really like with a good[ish] screen resulution is being able to have two terminal windows (or editor windows) both 80 columns wide completely visible side by side.