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Small screens

Posted Mar 16, 2011 14:20 UTC (Wed) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701)
In reply to: Small screens by nix
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

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).


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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.


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