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Idea #23981: Increased screen resolutions means a fullscreen application is unwieldy

Written by Blaise the 12 Mar 10 at 10:11. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
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With the increase in screen resolutions maximising application windows is no longer becoming necessary.

Large screen resolutions and widescreen formats lend themselves better to utilising multiple windows at once, sized accordingly to the contents held within.

Instead a more user friendly feature would be to allow a window to be automatically resized to the relevant contents inside its window, for example a browser to resize until it loses its scrollbars.

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Solution #1: Have ctrl+maximise_button resize window to contents, instead of full screen
Written by Blaise the 12 Mar 10 at 10:11.
I suggest that the current functionality for the maximise button doesn't change on a single click, but that using it in combination with the 'ctrl' key would resize the window with the contents in mind.
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Solution #2: Make a new button
Written by Darwin Survivor the 18 Mar 10 at 19:29.
Modifier keys are not very intuitive, adding a new button would be a good fix for this.
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Solution #3: Drag window to the screen edge to auto resize it to half width
Written by alvevind the 23 Mar 10 at 21:02.
In Windows 7 you can drag a window to the left or right edge of the screen to make it auto resize to one half the screen width and anchor to that side. It is a very intuitive and efficient way of setting up two windows open side by side.
Quick demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnWwxuPZFM

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crazybilly wrote on the 13 Mar 10 at 05:06
While this may be true on desktop computers, laptops are increasingly eating up computer marketshare, particularly in recrecational computer use. And few laptops have screens larger than 17"--most use 15.4" monitors where quite the opposite is true:

not only is maximizing windows essential, it's often the best (or at least the easiest) way to see the most information at once.

Changing behaviour based on a shrinking market space may not be the wisest choice.


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