Re: [Pythoncard-users] Straw Poll - Screen Size (Possibly OT)

[phil j. <int...@gm...>]

I vote for sticking to 800 X 600.

If you have a bigger monitor, smaller dialogues are not a huge
problem. But if you have some kind of old / cool new tiny handheld
origami-style computer big dialogues are.

What would be really cool though would be dialogues where you could
increase or shrink the text as you can with Firefox with ctrl-+ and
ctrl- -

On 6/5/06, Winston Wolff <win...@st...> wrote:
> Here are some reasons why we might want to keep 800x600 as a minimum
> resolution:
>
>         =95 When I give presentations, I reduce the resolution to 800x600
> because otherwise things get too small for people at the back room to
> read.
>         =95 There is talk on the edu-sig Python mailing list of using
> PythonCard with Ebuntu in an educational package of development
> tools, i.e. teach kids to program using Python and PythonCard.  The
> systems they want to deploy on include that $100 MIT computer.  I
> think the resolution of that is 800x600.
>
> -Winston
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> > Whenever I've released software into the big bad world, I've (up to
> > now) made
> > a conscious effort to ensure that all main windows and dialogs
> > require a
> > screen resolution of no more than 800x600. Looking around the
> > office where
> > I'm sitting at the moment, it seems that nobody uses a screen
> > resolution this
> > small any more. For instance, the laptop I'm typing this on has a
> > 1920x1200
> > widescreen display, I have a 1600x1200 CRT sitting next to me, the
> > guy to my
> > left runs a pair of 15-inch TFTs at 1024x768 each, the dev team
> > have 19-inch
> > TFTs running at resolutions up to 1600x1200.
> >
> > I wonder if the list feels there is a minimum reasonable screen
> > resolution to
> > expect most people to be running at? Or is it better from a pure
> > usability
> > point of view to keep individual windows as simple as possible even
> > if that
> > means having to employ multi-page dialogs?
> >
> > Even a single step up from 800x600 to 1024x768 gives a 60% increase in
> > available display area based purely on the total pixel count. I'm
> > conscious
> > of the temptation to try and fit ever more buttons, text boxes and
> > other
> > components onto a bigger screen, but at the same time I know from past
> > experience that many end-users of software I've written are happier
> > to have
> > less clutter per window, even if that means having to click their
> > way through
> > more than one window to accomplish a particular task.
> >
> > Just a bit of random Monday afternoon musing, I'm interested to
> > know if people
> > have any strong opinions one way or another.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Phil Edwards
> > Brighton, UK
> >
> >
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