Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-08, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Widescreen always felt a gimmick to me.

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In some ways it was.  It was the gimmic to get you to part with money
to sit in a theater instead of watching the movie at home on your TV.
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IT was, for *some* movies, better.  Those movies which showed wide
vistas and expanses, but for other movies, like Naked Gun or Sliding
Doors, its pointless.

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The idea was likely to create a more immersive experience so the
audience would feel like they were "in the action" vs. "just watching
through a hole in the wall".
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For computers, it leads to wasted space.

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Depends upon how you use the widescreen space.

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Quite. It works pretty well for me. Some specific use cases:
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* Side-by-side code diffs
* Two or more source files side by side
* Terminal one on side, source on the other
* In portrait orientation, PDF specs

This could easily be its killer feature, if rotation were much more
common (and cheap): reading paged documents formatted for printing, with
each page fitting on the screen.

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Nuno Silva