Lets Drop Old Monitors

[Karsten Loh]

I've to say I'm a bit puzzled which programs you are running that won't
work with the Scale display function. I'm running my HiDPI Monitor for
over a year now and I found only few programs (and they keep getting
fewer thankfully) that did not adhere to the setting. Mostly those are
java programs (which cause the same problem on Windows btw.) and older
GTK programs).
Btw. no offense, but it might help if you stop calling your 4k display
"HD". In computing HD is generally understood to indicate a resolution
of 1920x1080 px. I don't think there is much need to allow for
increasing fonts, icons, etc. for most people at that resolution. What
you are referring to is usually called a HiDPI or 4k monitor. Stating HD
while actually referring to HiDPI is going to throw of a lot of people.


LLAP,

Karsten
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On 17.07.2018 21:28, Bill Vance wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Bmarsh wrote:
>
>>       From: Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
>>       Subject: Re: Lets Drop Old Monitors
>>       Date: 7/17/18 10:42 AM
>>       To: Kubuntu user technical support
>> <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>>       <snip>
>>
>>
>>
>>       On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Doug wrote:
>>
>>       > have you tried changing the DPI setting?
>>       >
>>       >
>>       > That is one of two methods of changing font sizes in
>>       > system
>>       > settings.  Neither of them is anywhere close to working
>>       > perfectly.
>>       >
>>       >
>>       > the DPI setting changes not just the font size, but also the
>>       > graphics sizes, at least for all apps that pay attention to
>> this.
>>
>>       Which, unfortunately, is no guarentee that they'll do a good job
>>       of it, which is one of the main reasons I'm lobbying for making
>>       individual adjustments to text, and symbol sizes. 
>>
>> I don’t much care for the idea of individual adjustments.  I really
>> don’t want
>> to have to go thru what could be 100 or more ‘adjustments’ every time
>> I switch
>> to a new release or download a new app.  Just one would do...
>
>
> With appropriate default values, you shouldn't need to make
> more than just a few adjustments, if that many.
>
>
>   and I hate to say
>> this but Windows handles different monitors quite well.
>
>
> Which only says that Linux needs to pull it's head out,
> and get to work.
>
>

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