800x600 default (Re: [Patch] Add dmask/fmask support into media:/)

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Saturday 26 August 2006 08:31, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Saturday 26 August 2006 02:22, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> > On Friday 25 August 2006 22:16, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > On Friday 25 August 2006 02:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > 800x600 with a 46px panel.
> > >
> > > I think we should review this for KDE 4.  800x600 is unrealistic these
> > > days and doesn't reflect the reality of some of our dialogs.
> >
> > Most desktops (if not all) I see these days don't go smaller than
> > 1024x768.
>
> "Currently, about 60% of all monitors are set at 1024x768 pixels. In
> comparison, only about 17% use 800x600 so it's obviously less important to
> aim at perfection for these small-display users. What's equally obvious,
> however, is that you can't simply ignore 17% of your customer segment by
> providing a frozen layout that requires more screen space than they have
> available."[1]
>
> That some KDE developers can't properly design GUIs needs to be changed,
> not accepted.
>
> Anecdotal evidence from someone who walks around at the office at work and
> peeks at his wife's PC is not of much interest. There's a world out there
> where not everyone runs around with the latest cell, ipod, and a flat
> screen display.

Please cut the condescending crap. I've worked in the IT industry both as an 
IT systems deployment and repair specialist and as programmer at a fairly 
large university where we serviced not just the staff's machines but also the 
students as well, and now for a private company of over 400 people. I wasn't 
using a small use base for this information. 800x600 displays (in the US 
anyway) are far more rare than that page suggests. Besides, I'd like to see 
where they also get those numbers from......

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 		Frans
>
> 1.
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html
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