Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:57, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 01:48 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > Oh, that's what you meant. i thought you meant the buttons
> > disappearing. In Gnome you definitely cannot resize a maximised window
> > without restoring it too its original size first.
>
> I don't know of any reasearch on the topic but I suspect usability
> studies would show that the majority of users maximize whatever windows
> they are using and leave them that way.  Witness the recent redesign of
> the nytimes.com site, that assumes browsing maximized at 1024x768 or
> better.  Judging from the comments I read on various blogs about it,
> browsing un-maximized is considered a corner case.
>
> Apple must have had a reason to change this behavior between OS9 and
> OSX.  I think it's just easier on the eyes to have the part of the
> screen I'm not using be filled empty space, rather than a slice of my
> quite busy and distracting desktop icons, or a random chunk of another
> window.  Maybe this will change when 40 inch monitors become common.
>
> Lee
I don't really do anything maximised, I much prefer to have part of my desktop 
showing.

Sasha