Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale

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Subject	Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale
Date	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:10:26 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-01-19, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
> On 2016-01-19, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 19/01/16 04:38, Ramine wrote:
>>>
>>> Visual Designers Don’t Scale
>>
>> Why do you think so? (URLs don't count.)
>
> It has been my experience that most dialog boxes of visual tools
> don't scale. If they are for Windows, written by Microsoft, that is.
>
> "Damn it, get wider, so I can see the full path! Argh ..."

Wait, that's "resize", not "scale", pardon me.

Scale means resize, and the fonts and perhaps other UI elements like
buggons and icons get bigger. That's seen even less often in visual
development tools, so there is a point.

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Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 07:14 +0000
  Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2016-01-19 19:08 +0000
    Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2016-01-19 19:10 +0000
      Re: Visual Designers Don’t Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 22:10 +0000
        Re: Visual Designers Don't Scale Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-20 02:23 -0800
          Re: Visual Designers Don't Scale Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 16:15 +0000

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