From kde-usability Mon Jan 05 18:28:56 2004 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:28:56 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Re: KDE screen resolution policy Message-Id: <200401051128.57333.aseigo () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=107332788421976 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 January 2004 11:14, Luke Chatburn wrote: > It is also worth noting some statistics I saw a few weeks back (I forget > the link, unfortunately :-/ ), that the majority of users (> 95%) are now > running > 800x600. i think the "what resolution are our users running?" is only part of the question; the other (more important) part is "how big of a window can our users effectively use?" ... allowing larger windows can allow more whitespace, less use of tab widgets, etc... but more often it just allows more widgets, more information, more options and less thought put into it since you don't have to optimize for space... bottom line is that people have a maximum threshold on the amount of information and number of interactive pieces they can manage at once.... by saying we will make our interfaces smaller (or, to put it another way: bite sized), we are giving ourselves parameters that force us to make our interfaces more usable by making them smaller and therefore simpler. and as Bill pointed out, this also has nice benefits for accessability (think of screen readers going over a full 640x480 dialog versus a full 1024x768 dialog =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+azp1rcusafx20MRAutOAKCXYRCBJFmj1K+ehtqLzOjektGxoQCfTm9a aP6IqSgsWGvj2wOafrlsiu4= =s7r+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability