Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Dick Porter <dick ximian com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:12:32PM -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> A window that is larger than your screen is useless anyways, and is a
> certain indicator of a buggy application --- why would an application
> create a window larger than your screen, rather than size itself
> correctly and let you scroll?

Not true!

Having the ability to see windows that are larger than the physical
screen is very handy for viewing large diagrams at least (when scaling it
down to fit one screenful makes the detail too small to see, and scrolling
is more awkward then choosing quadrants).

- Dick