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Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

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On 13/01/18 07:02 PM, Doug wrote:

> Well, I'm using KDE5 ("plasma") and I like it, but Windows 10 comes
> stock with a really gross interface--great big boxes on the screen for
> just a few apps. You can abolish that junk with a free
> app that makes the screen look and act like the Win 7 desktop, or one or
> two other earlier Windows versions. It's called Classic Shell, and I
> heard that it has been taken over by some open source
> group, but I have no further info. There's probably another similar app
> someplace. Fortunately, the Windows upgrade does not delete it, as I was
> afraid it might. (I very seldom use Windows,
> but I did upgrade to the latest slop just a few days ago.)

Windows really blew it with HiDPI, which is why those apps are so ugly. 
  Rumour has it that it took Microsoft three tries just to get Notepad 
right, let alone their other apps.  I ran into this recently (I write a 
lot of Windows stuff) where my program, which spaces buttons evenly 
across the screen, had them run off the right-hand side when run on a 
machine with a HiDPI monitor.  It seems that with a HiDPI screen, 
Windows lies to you about screen co-ordinates, presumably in an attempt 
to fudge things before you realize what's going on.  Similarly, if you 
ask Windows 10 to tell you what version it is, it lies and says it's 
Windows 8.1.

Microsoft's new policy apparently is "You can't handle the truth!" 
Let's hope Linux developers don't make the same mistake.

Thanks for the tip about Classic Shell.  If I'm ever sentenced to use 
Windows 10 it might make life a bit more bearable.  (On my own machines 
- which run Debian - I run Windows XP under VirtualBox.  IMHO Windows' 
usability, such as it is, peaked somewhere between 2000 and XP and has 
been going downhill ever since.)

-- 
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2017-12-24 11:50 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2017-12-24 13:50 +0100
    Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-12-27 23:50 +0100
      Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2018-01-14 04:10 +0100
        Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-14 06:10 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-12-24 21:10 +0100
    Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2017-12-25 06:50 +0100
  Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-12-25 07:10 +0100

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