Comments on: The problem with big displays http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/general/the-problem-with-big-displays because it is! Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: kyt http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/general/the-problem-with-big-displays/comment-page-1#comment-3775 kyt Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:14:26 +0000 http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/?p=498#comment-3775 I know, this is older BUT, I use my dad's BIG lcd monitor all the time and have no issues whatsoever using all that space, but then again its on Mac and not a MS PC! I often have 2 windows open, a chat up and am programming away on one window while I research or view the results on another window. I don't the issues of buttons too far apart, or all this white space. Simply resize the browser window, or the application window you are working on. IN the case of silly programs that insist on using full screen, well, I do avoid those as I think the programmar a bit silly to insist that I only do his application exclusively. I can multi-task unlike most CEO's who insist on making their apps only full screen. Would I use a double monitor? Sure! Matter of a fact, if I could get 2 24" flat screens to work side by side, I would do it in a heart beat. I'd even buy a 30", if they were a little cheaper. Signed, female quadruple tasker I know, this is older BUT, I use my dad’s BIG lcd monitor all the time and have no issues whatsoever using all that space, but then again its on Mac and not a MS PC! I often have 2 windows open, a chat up and am programming away on one window while I research or view the results on another window. I don’t the issues of buttons too far apart, or all this white space. Simply resize the browser window, or the application window you are working on. IN the case of silly programs that insist on using full screen, well, I do avoid those as I think the programmar a bit silly to insist that I only do his application exclusively. I can multi-task unlike most CEO’s who insist on making their apps only full screen.

Would I use a double monitor? Sure! Matter of a fact, if I could get 2 24″ flat screens to work side by side, I would do it in a heart beat. I’d even buy a 30″, if they were a little cheaper.

Signed, female quadruple tasker

]]> By: Brant Peery http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/general/the-problem-with-big-displays/comment-page-1#comment-219 Brant Peery Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:09:26 +0000 http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/?p=498#comment-219 A problem with bigger displays is that while it may seem like more space to the user, it really isn't any more space than that of a small display. So a windows manager will not help give more pixels so that the physical space can be used more effectively. The user has to turn their head to see each side of the screen on a 30" monitor. Yet they gain nothing in actual screen real estate. The only real answer is dual, quad... setups. Where each monitor is a reasonable size and their resolution capable of something that gives high value screen real estate. That way the user doesn't just get something presented to them BIGGER, but MORE can be shown to the user. I see monitor screens coming out that have 2, 4, 6... individual LCD screens built into one monitor casing. So it looks like a 30" single monitor, but has a resolution of a 2x2 array of monitors. A problem with bigger displays is that while it may seem like more space to the user, it really isn’t any more space than that of a small display. So a windows manager will not help give more pixels so that the physical space can be used more effectively. The user has to turn their head to see each side of the screen on a 30″ monitor. Yet they gain nothing in actual screen real estate.
The only real answer is dual, quad… setups. Where each monitor is a reasonable size and their resolution capable of something that gives high value screen real estate. That way the user doesn’t just get something presented to them BIGGER, but MORE can be shown to the user. I see monitor screens coming out that have 2, 4, 6… individual LCD screens built into one monitor casing. So it looks like a 30″ single monitor, but has a resolution of a 2×2 array of monitors.

]]> By: nuno costa http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/general/the-problem-with-big-displays/comment-page-1#comment-162 nuno costa Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:48:33 +0000 http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/?p=498#comment-162 Hi Pedro, Welcome here! You are correct, but as I said it's not quite the same thing! It's better to solve this with a new UI paradigm than hopping the users start using a specific window manager. Hi Pedro,

Welcome here!

You are correct, but as I said it’s not quite the same thing!

It’s better to solve this with a new UI paradigm than hopping the users start using a specific window manager.

]]> By: Pedro http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/general/the-problem-with-big-displays/comment-page-1#comment-161 Pedro Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:30:02 +0000 http://www.francodacosta.com/blog/?p=498#comment-161 They already think of a solution many years ago, it just haven't reached the big main stream audience. It's called: Tiling window manager cheers They already think of a solution many years ago, it just haven’t reached the big main stream audience.
It’s called: Tiling window manager

cheers

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