Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 15, 2013 9:06 UTC (Sat) by alankila (guest, #47141)
In reply to: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget) by bojan
Parent article: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

For whatever little it is worth, I really do prefer the distraction-free approach. Call it the tablet/phone effect: I suddenly discovered that windows suck and in general try to only run fullscreen applications these days. The experience is best with OS X, but GNOME 3 comes a very close second. My main gripe is that not all applications have integrated with the top toolbar (which can be configured to vanish away, leaving *all* screen space for applications).

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 15, 2013 9:16 UTC (Sat) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Lucky you. For the rest of us that have to see multiple windows at the same time (sometimes 8 or 9), this simply does nothing. Making a UI that does single tasking well is probably the easiest problem to solve. It has been done to death in the 90s.

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 15, 2013 23:29 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I've found something similar. I used to have rules to tell KWin to hammer sizes, locations, etc. of windows to different workspaces. Now I use a much more fluid setup with XMonad which gets me the "full screen" by default, but also handles the "need a couple of things at once" scenario automatically. If you really want 100% of the screen for applications, you also need to get rid of those pesky window decorations ;) .