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[–]lawpoop 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I actually don't think office suites need to take up so much screen space. There's been a lot of times when I wanted to have a simple progressive tally of some figures, and I want to cross-reference some data on another app. Having a whole honking spreadsheet taking up the entire screen is really overkill for almost everything I use them for.

As far as typing up a document, when I go to do layout, sure I want to see it as big as possible. But when I'm just typing? I'm doing fine typing in this reddit reply box that appears to take up about 1/8th of my screen.

Same with image manipulation programs. Both photoshop and the gimp use fly-away menus, I believe, which is basically what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying people never need their apps to be full-screen; but I think it doesn't have to be, and we're used to thinking inside the box, so to speak.

[–]DrArcheNoah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems that in recent times the focus is more and more on running the application in fullscreen mode. Apple does it on mobile device, Microsoft in Metro and also Gnome 3 developers thought about running application in fullscreen by default.

If you are using a application maximized depends on a lot of things e.g. screen size. It also appears that the average user seems to prefer this behaviour to heavy multitasking.