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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Visual Designers =?UTF-8?Q?Don=E2=80=99t?= 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.