[kde-guidelines] Minimal app size

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Friday 03 October 2014 14:15:37 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> On Friday 03 October 2014, 14:06:27 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > So the question is: Should we promote aiming for widescreen by setting
> > WXGA
> > as the minimum, or stick to 4:3 XGA (which would mean that the
> > applications
> > would fit vertically on WXGA screens, but not make use of the available
> > vertical space)?
> 
> Why should we encourage widescreen (or any other aspect ratio)? Lucky if
> someone owns a widescreen monitor, but KDE software runs fine on "ancient"
> hardware too.

No it doesn't. Absolutely not. Plasma 5 won't even work without hardware 
acceleration, try that on an ancient computer. Or try running Plasma 5 on a 
system with less than a gigabyte of RAM.
And optimizing for widescreen means being better at making use of those extra 
pixels on the side (something which Calligra does very well).
Why being kept back by way-too-old hardware?