[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Help improve the desktop experience! Send screenshots of your 1024x768 desktop

[Philip Wyett]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:40 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> FYI: See below..
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com>
> Date: 2008/12/17
> Subject: Help improve the desktop experience! Send screenshots of your
> 1024x768 desktop
> To: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> As part of our work on desktop experience and design, I'm collecting
> screenshots of desktops in action. Please send me yours! Feel free to
> send two or three, with browsers open or email clients or chat
> windows, anything. I'm interested in seeing the diversity of
> wallpapers, themes, panel configurations, window layouts in general
> use.
> 
> By and large I think I can promise to keep these confidential but I
> would rather not have any sensitive info just in case. We will use
> these for mockups to test different ideas, and if one of those mockups
> got published I would not want to cause a problem for anyone!
> 
> I specifically am looking for screenshots that are all the same size
> so we can test ideas against multiple desktops simultaneously. I think
> 1024x768 is probably the most widely used size of screen on laptops. I
> don't mind screenshots of desktops in other sizes (they may be quite
> useful) but having 10 or 20 shots in one size would be more useful
> right now.
> 

Not too sure Marks assertion that 1024x768 is probably the most widely
used size of screen on laptops is correct overall but is within the
thinkpad fan base. I haven't had a laptop with a default of 1024x768 for
years but 1280x800 and now 1440x900. I am wrong in my thoughts here? :-)

Regards

Phil
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