The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 17, 2011 17:17 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by me@jasonclinton.com
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

> 3. Someone who buys a netbook cannot to complain about screen real-estate when systems of equal cost have normal-sized screens. You got what you choose to buy.

Without any implied comment on the functionality or behavior of Gnome3, I've gotta just say: that statement is completely ridiculous. You can *absolutely* want a small screen, and yet want to use the whole thing for useful content at the same time.

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 17, 2011 17:24 UTC (Thu) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link] (1 responses)

> Without any implied comment on the functionality or behavior of Gnome3, I've gotta just say: that statement is completely ridiculous. You can *absolutely* want a small screen, and yet want to use the whole thing for useful content at the same time.

Useful content: yes; large content: no.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 17, 2011 18:57 UTC (Thu) by amcnabb (guest, #56959) [Link]

> > Without any implied comment on the functionality or behavior of Gnome3, I've gotta just say: that statement is completely ridiculous. You can *absolutely* want a small screen, and yet want to use the whole thing for useful content at the same time.
> Useful content: yes; large content: no.

Another completely ridiculous statement.

foom didn't say anything about large content. Their comment was that users with a small screen may "want to use the whole thing."