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I will never, ever understand people who have large displays but still run fully maximized browser windows. It seems a bit half-assed to run these images uncro
by tvon 18y ago
I will never, ever understand people who have large displays but still run fully maximized browser windows.
It seems a bit half-assed to run these images uncropped... not like they couldn't provide links to the originals.
(a bit OT and negative, but seriously folks...)
- jonursenbach 18y agoWhat's wrong with running your browser fully maximized? I, personally, cannot stand having a half-screen browser open. Feels like I'm wasting space.
- silentbicycle 18y agoEvery single screenshot there has the content padded by about a meter and a half of empty background, though. Many, many websites have stylesheets that do that by default. The same space would fit a separate browser window with the same amount of content (or an editor, etc.). Also, many people find text that wraps at roughly 70-80 columns or less easier to read than longer lines. (This is probably why the stylesheets set the column width.) I used to do everything in fully maximized windows (I was using ratpoison (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) at the time), but it seemed to make less and less sense as monitors got larger. A widescreen 22+ inch monitor is practically two page-sized screens side by side.
- diego 18y agoI'm the opposite. I like text to not wrap unless possible. I hate having to scroll down because someone decided to have seven words per line.
- silentbicycle 18y agoMaybe once tiled window managers (something like dwm, xmonad, awesome, wmii) become less obscure?
- potatolicious 18y agoDon't need to. Look at the workspace of an experienced Mac user (who's using a large-ish display) and you will see that there are almost no maximized apps, and that plenty of different apps share the screenspace at once. Beginner users (and non-Macheads) hate it, but I've yet to meet a switcher than didn't like it in the end. It's a matter of paradigms - Windows doesn't really have a lot of inter-app interactions via the default UI, so there's no real need for multiple apps to be visit at once.
- silentbicycle 18y ago> Windows doesn't really have a lot of inter-app interactions via the default UI, I think you're on to something there. Good point.
- bemmu 18y agoInteresting to be reminded of this. I switched a few months back, and it really was a bit painful. I found it hard to concentrate when I could not maximize, and I spent some time trying to find some software that would solve this. By now I had totally forgotten I experienced it as a problem at first.
- Tichy 18y agoHaha, that is because you can't maximize on OS X (bloody dock is in the way). SCNR ;-)
- abossy 18y ago
- GeneralMaximus 18y agoI like to run all apps maximized. That way, I can focus on the task at hand and not be distracted by stuff going on in other apps. Also, less clutter = more productivity.
- tvon 18y agoThere is something to be said for that, but IMO you should maybe be using the minimize button instead of the maximize.
- andrewljohnson 18y agoYou must not develop a website, or you must have a small monitor. As a web developer. I always run two monitors - one has my emacs, terminals, process manager, and browser, all nicely tiled on a 30" monitor. On my other screen, I keep iTunes, skype, and other distractions.
- litewulf 18y agoI work on a website and I use two 24" monitors. Firefox maximized on one (Firebug takes up tons of room you know!), and screen (with emacs/terminals/etc) on the other. I think this is more a personal preference thing than anything else. (And I use my laptop for music and IM, but its usually displaying the Vista enter password screen anyway.)
- andrewljohnson 18y agoSomeday Vista will stop hurting you :)
- diego 18y agoYou don't need to understand them, you just need to know that they exist and there are quite a few of them (us). If you do UI work, design accordingly. For example: the larger the monitor, the more tabs I can have open on Firefox without having to cycle left and right. I like being able to see all my tabs at once and know where they are. I also like having Terminal taking up the other monitor, and knowing that it's always there. It's the Terminal monitor. All other applications are minimized, I bring them to the front when I need them and minimize them after. It's like opening and closing the fridge.
- inerte 18y agoI have a 22" widescreen monitor and usually run apps maximized. It's a rare situation when I have to simultaneously focus on two apps.Why not dedicate screen space to what I am currently working on?
- hboon 18y agoTypical example, web developer with browser (or tool like CSSEdit) open and an editor open. Or multiple editors open, one for each class.