Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design [LWN.net]

Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

Posted Feb 13, 2012 0:27 UTC (Mon) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design by dlang
Parent article: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

> If the GNOME standard says that a good app always maximizes itself, because doing otherwise wastes screen space on window decorations and borders, then it's not unreasonable to believe that future versions of the terminal will follow this standard, and people are arguing that doing so is a bad thing.

Let me quote from the blog
"smaller utility applications will not be affected by this" and
"First, not all applications will use this behaviour – only those that have been designed to do so."

Terminals will stay the way they are and maximizing them by default would not equal to "breaking them" (I do sometimes use maximized terminals, so its not like they are useless in this state).

> and the argument that people only want to have one thing on a screen is false in so many ways it's not funny, even for 'normal people', let alone for power users.

That's not what the blog says nor does anyone plan to remove the ability to have multiple windows. And throwing in meaningless buzzwords like "power users" does not add any value so just stop that. See discussion above I was quite serious while asking "what the hell is a power user" because it does not make sense at all. You are just a user. You might be using you computer for writing documents, developing software, browsing the web, editing photos, cutting movies, ... or doing multiple of this tasks. What of them makes you a "power user"? nothing really.