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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?]
From:       Paul Campbell <paul () taniwha ! com>
Date:       2003-11-11 17:02:31
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:28 am, Ladislav Strojil wrote:
>On Tuesday 11 of November 2003 09:16, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) 
wrote:
> > That is NOT the point.  The point is that as your screen 
> > grows, your UI elements should stay constant in size,
> > REGARDLESS of the resolution.
>
> The size should be determined based on DPI settings of your
> monitor. If I use 1600x1200 on a 17" screen, I don't really
> want everything to be tiny and illegible.
> So yes, you are right, if you are talking about DPI
> resolution, and no, you are not right, if you are talking
> about pixel resolution.

Actually I think that people need choices - I use KDE on a laptop 
day-to-day that has a 16 inch 1600x1200 screen - I think that by 
default UI elements should scale by DPI but people should be 
able to choose to override them where possible - on my old 14 
inch 1024x768 screen I scrunched down the dock to minimum size, 
reduced font sizes in konsole and made icons smaller in order to 
conserve precious screen space. Now I have an embarassment of 
riches - I can use the beautiful large icons, the larger dock, 
larger cleaner fonts - but I'm getting older, I can't easily 
read the really tiny fonts that the occasional web site uses on 
this new screen (the font zoom key on konq is wonderfull)

	Paul
 
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