[Users] Wrapping

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:42:23 +0300, mlist at riseup.net wrote:
>Ralf Mardorf,
>
>I am not willing to defend a counter point because I am
>primarily a desktop user too but that doesn't mean I
>hate a whole generation or anything along these lines.
>On the contrary: I would like my messages to be easily
>read by the receivers. Hence this thread.
>
>Your strenuous attempts to defend an absolutist
>viewpoint as ultimately "right", "serious", "sane" and
>"appropriate" by being repeatedly cynical are making
>any further discussion with you impossible.

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:21:23 +0200, John Crisp posted a link to a
screenshot, that shows that a 90° rotation of the smart phone is all a
smart phone user has to do:

>Landscape
>
>https://www.picpasteplus.com/view.php?i=apsp9pbphpj4f414ajxj1phb.jpg

You are asking all other computer users to break a sane workflow, just
because it's too much work to rotate a smart phone for 90° in the hand.
The rotation is detected by a sensor, there's nothing else the smart
phone user needs to do.

This is less work, than rearranging windows of {,tiling} window managers
on "real" computers, were human kind makes all the important work.

I care a lot about this issue, since modern environments tend to drop
useful features for desktop computers. A lot of desktop environments do
look like the iOS user interface and they work more and more similar to
iOS user interfaces. The funny thing is, that professional applications
on iOS devices, work around the iOS limitations and work closer to
desktop computer environments. I for example use Auria Pro on an iPad
Pro with a 12.9-inch screen. Actually it's impossible to do serious
computer work with a screen way smaller than 12.9-inch.

So for the very last time, before I stop replying:

- Smart phone users could rotate the telephone in their hand for 90° to
  avoid bad formatted lines that are wrapped at 72 chars.
- Users who want to get serious work done on a portable device, should
  get a note book or tablet computer. A smart phone is just a telephone.

If users who do work on desktop computers, wouldn't vehemently speak
against bad ideas, the next workflow migration would be compatibility
to smart watches. Then the desktop computer users should resize the
windows to smart watch size.