Is the open office layout dead?

Re:Is the open office layout dead? by cm2187 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:59PM (#15060950)

How about a 42inch 4K monitor (Philips BDM4350UC). In term of screen real estate it is fantastic.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:03PM (#15060967)

In terms of PPI, not so great.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by cm2187 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:15PM (#15061026)

For development I take screen real estate over PPI. The idea is to run it at native resolution while being very readable, and to be able to work on multiple documents side by side.

(And for coding you actually need height more than width, if you think of a typical layout of a code file)

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:49PM (#15061132)

To each their own. I love the fact that I can't see pixels on my retina iMac at 220 PPI. It makes reading code much nicer.

I still have more than enough room for a few buffers on screen.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by sundvor on Sunday August 20, 2017 @09:26PM (#15061288)

I agree with you. I'd love to try a 4k screen, and was even considering it - however in the end I took my home U3415W to work and bought the X34 for home (I might game 30 minutes a week or something; the extra hz are certainly nice for that, otherwise they are pretty much identical).

I value actual real estate over PPI, preferring to run at 100% / unscaled which looks much nicer in Win10. The 109PPI (3440x1440) is decent enough, and I don't have to squint. Furthermore the DPI matches those of the surrounding 16:10 24s (1920x1200) well enough for it not to be an issue.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by mcny on Sunday August 20, 2017 @10:01PM (#15061410)

I am trying not to cargo cult here but I think if I need to scroll a file with 9 font on a 32"+ screen with 4k display it might be a sign of code smell (again, this should definitely not be a hard rule just saying it might be nice to stop and think why it is so long)?

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by sundvor on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:13AM (#15063085)

Not arguing against that, however Visual Studio has lots of windows eg NCrunch runner, output, solution overview in addition to editor(s).

The ultrawide allows for this nicely; tests on the left, two actual editors, solution explorer on right, and output at the bottom under the editors.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by strictnein on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:19PM (#15061687)

Do you mean 9pt or 9px font? Either way, that's not comfortably readable on a 32" 4k screen.

On a 34" 3440x1440 screen I keep IntelliJ at 14px (10.5pt). On a 32" 4k screen I keep it at 15px-16px (~11pt).

You're still only talking ~100 lines of code on the screen at any one time. Maybe ~130 with a smaller font.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by barrkel on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:04PM (#15060977)

It doesn't appear to be curved or ultra wide screen.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by cm2187 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:16PM (#15061028)

It's not curve but you can see it as an ultra wide screen which is also very high.

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