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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Default size for KOffice app main windows
From:       "Robert Knight" <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-04-11 23:11:58
Message-ID: 13ed09c00604111611k392948a6tcf47956abc7841a9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

Sounds sensible to me, it is certainly very difficult to work with any
word processed, spreadsheet or presentation document in such a small
space.

Regards,
Robert.

On 11/04/06, Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:
> Alan Cooper (*) argues that windows for "sovereign" applications -- apps that
> a user typically uses for long stretches at a time -- should start maximized
> by default. And he has a point. In any case, KOffice apps now start at
> 640x480 by default which is ridiculous. (Try: $ mkdir foo && KDEHOME=foo
> krita && rm -rf foo).
>
> I propose to make full screen the default for kword, kpresenter, kspread,
> karbon, krita, kexi and kivio and keep 640x480 for kformula, kchart and
> kthesaurus.
>
> *) About Face -- great book full of strong ideas.
> --
> Boudewijn Rempt
> http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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