Small screens [LWN.net]

Small screens

Posted Mar 16, 2011 12:31 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Small screens by cesarb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Hang on. We're told that the reason for all this redesigning is to make GNOME 3 nice to use on devices with small screens... but this makes it seem like nobody is doing any testing on such devices!

I find this conflicting evidence very conflicting.

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Small screens

Posted Mar 16, 2011 14:20 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (1 responses)

No, that is not the reason for the new design. The principal ethos behind the new design is managing distractions (notifications) and making it easier for users to find things (applications, windows, files).

Small screens

Posted Mar 17, 2011 1:28 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

the last point of the goals of Gnome Shell, as stated here:

"Effectively works on contemporary hardware: the Shell will provide an excellent experience on touch-based devices and will scale down to small screen sizes. It has also been designed with wide-screen in mind".

emphasis mine.