Sorry it took me so long to get back to this discussion.
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Originally Posted by ptyork
If you have been doing this for a long time, you know that the extra effort involved to make this work is quite significant.
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I suppose lazy was a bit strong. I do know how some things require an inordinate amount of work but, I still maintain that a programmer is trying to serve the needs of the user. If the GUI doesn't work, that effort is compromised.
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Originally Posted by ptyork
There's also a significant usability tradeoff. ... but then you'd have the full-sizers complaining that now they can't see everything on a single screen.
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I know what you are saying. No matter what you do, someone is going to find some fault. I'm sure you know that. We had an app, that had all the bells and whistles, hot keys, menu options, and even hot keys on the digitizer puck - the user could select the function any way they wanted. Some loved it because they had flexibility others didn't because they found it confusing.
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Originally Posted by ptyork
I still go back to the base concept that Windows (or rather the base Windows UI) is a large-screen experience GUI. ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright was a prominent architect near the end of the last century. He was noted for innovative and exciting structures. In his houses he believed ceilings should be no more than 7 feet high in smaller rooms. Mr Wright was not very tall, himself but, when some 6 foot tall clients complained he stated, "People shouldn't be so tall."
We all have a point of view and we won't always agree. There are conditions where each of us may be right and there are times when we are all right.