On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: >> This is a very nice theme and looks more professional and usable to >> me. My only complaint is that it's rather narrow on all my computers >> (widescreen laptop and LCD displays). It looks like we're losing an >> awful lot of screen real estate. Is it possible to make it a fluid >> rather than fixed width theme? http://www.ubuntu.com has the same >> issue. It ends up looking rather cramped on all my computers and more >> like a blog site (perhaps because of the ubiquity of some of >> Wordpresses past default themes :-) ). > > There is one usability issue with letting the content get too wide, > however. If you've ever used LaTeX, it defaults to something like 65 > char/line. The reason is that as the lines get longer, it becomes more > difficult to track which line one is reading. Upon reaching the end of > the line, the eyes must scroll much further left to find the beginning > of the next line, and the longer the lines are the harder it is to track > and the more likely one is to do that thing where a line is read twice > or a line is skipped. You'll also notice this principle in how > newspapers and textbooks do columns.
Right, I'm certainly aware of that usability issue, but I think it's better left to the user to decide the width than to keep it fixed. -Jordan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
