Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 19:19, Dick Porter wrote:
> 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).

Then the app is broken and needs an interface like ggv has for handling
that case.
Luis