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

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Widescreen always felt a gimmick to me.

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.

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.

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".

For computers, it leads to wasted space.

Depends upon how you use the widescreen space.

Open up many webpages and notice how much blank space is on the
sides.  I've just gone to news.com.au, and HALF the screen is just
blank white space.

I just went to news.com.au, and only half of my one wide-screen monitor
is occupied by the Firefox window showing news.com.au.  The rest of the
wide screen shows two other Firefox windows that are presently 'behind'
the one displaying news.com.au.

Now, in the news.com.au window, the HTML/CSS of news.com.au is itself
only using about 3/4 of the width of the window it has available, with
about a 1/4 width margin of whitespace on the right of the story slugs. 
So yes, news.com.au is not trying to fill out the space they are given. 
So whomever their "designer" was is at fault here.

Mobiles are portrait, heavily so, desktops widescreen, heavily so, so
this results in just a mismatch.

And HTML is designed to adapt to whatever viewing portal it has
available.  That is if it were not for "designers" who have a "vision"
of how things should look "just so", and assume that everyone shares
their "vision" and then proceed to force HTML to bend to their
"vision".