[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Mar 26 21:14:15 CEST 2012

On 3/26/2012 10:58 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

Glenn Linderman wrote:

On 3/26/2012 10:19 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

Like Philip, I have one window. My window manager (ratpoison) is more like 'screen' for X: you can split the window up, but it is much more useful to have only one window visible at a time, most of the time.

I'm amazed at the number of people that use maximized windows, one application at a time. I have 2 1600x1200 displays, with 10-30 overlapping windows partially visible, and sometimes wish I had 3 displays, so I could see more windows at a time... but then I'd have to turn my head more, so maybe this is optimal. Two displays lets me get my autohidden taskbar in the vertical center, for quick access from either side. I also have two monitors, I use goScreen for three virtual desktops (I'm stuck with XP -- which is to say MS), and each application I use is full-screen while I'm using it. I find windows that I'm not using at that moment a distraction.

Interesting. I guess I'm always distracted :) But I often need data or information from multiple applications in order to make progress on a project... which is why each application seldom gets maximized. I even use multiple Firefox profiles concurrently, to have multiple browsers open for different purposes, as well as multiple tabs within each of them. Sometimes I even need multiple instances of Emacs, as well as multiple windows for a single instance, but that is usually very temporary, due to an interruption (distraction).

So my pet peeve about web sites is those that, although they seem to dynamically adjust to different monitor sizes, seem to miscalculate, and display a horizontal scroll bar, and consistently chop stuff off on the right edge of my non-maximized window. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120326/176b4558/attachment.html>

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