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

On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:53:28 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

That may be the designer understanding that beyond a point, using
*horizontal* space is a bad idea, unless they have something that
actually goes well with that.

I was thinking, there may be an issue with Microsoft Office users getting
annoyed with widescreen monitors. This is because the (in)famous Office
“Ribbon” was designed in the days before such monitors became popular. So
by taking up space along the short dimension, it reduces the available
area for showing your document content, particularly if your pages are
portrait-oriented, as most written documents are.

LibreOffice doesn’t suffer from this problem: it has a “Sidebar” which --
you guessed it -- sits along the side, taking up space along the dimension
which already has lots of it to spare.