[ale] Hopefully last LCD question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Chris, that's a really good question.  When I got back into programming 
in 2004, I was doing it on a widescreen laptop and I had the same 
concern as you.  I think Thomas' point carries the day in the end, at 
least in my opinion.  One could contend that you don't need to be 
writing code such that you're actually dealing with more than 15" of it 
at a time anyway (modularize, modularize, modularize!!).

I'm using a big tube monitor (20" or 21") at work, which is good, but 
I'm having to look above the horizontal for the top quarter of the screen.

But really, think of what Thomas said - what *else* do you have up when 
you code?  I typically have two or three shell windows up on the left 
and a kate window full of Python on the right.  It's very common to have 
a Web browser or what have you for reference or requirements docs.

Jeff



Thomas Stromberg wrote:

>On 27 jan 2006, at 08.09, cfowler at outpostsentinel.com wrote:
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>>With a widescreen I could put more windows out but the number of
>>lines I would view in vim would be reduced since the vertical
>>resolution of a ws is lower than a normal LCD.
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>>What I'm asking is are widescreens made more for gaming and
>>multimedia instead of doing work like coding, monitoring, email, etc.
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>Personally, I prefer widescreen LCD's for doing code development.  
>This allows me to have two windows side-by-side: The editor of the  
>day (Eclipse), and either documentation or a terminal window to  
>interact with the application I am developing. I find this ability to  
>have two items side by side more beneficial than having more lines  
>going down my screen.
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