Lets Drop Old Monitors

[Cody Smith]

Jeez, this thread for heated quick...

So here's the thing as I see it: sure we /could/ try and make an
overarching global standard, but look at packaging formats with the
multiple attempts to consolidate the packaging formats. How many more
formats did we create as a result? Tl;dr: I don't see this happening how
you want it, mate. Own source means people work how they see fit and make
things the way that makes sense to them or the organization they work for,
if you really want to try and get Ybor into effect, you'll want to put in a
feature request to X11, Wayland, and/or desktop environments/window
managers, not distro mailing lists (where little can be done about
something like this). It won't be put in exactly the way you envision nor
will support for lower trees monitors be dropped (for reasons already
stated), but feature requests /are/ the way to go about this, nor
complaining on a mailing list, complaining never gets anything done.

--c_smith

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 1:18 PM Robert Charbonneau <rpc at bewitching.me> wrote:

> Let's not admonish individuals who are spending their free time providing
> all of us with something for no charge.  When I change monitors, I expect
> there to be some kind of adjustment period.  Considering it's not something
> that occurs with regularity in most cases, I don't see how it could receive
> high priority.
>
> On 2018-07-18 04:08 PM, Bill Vance wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, David Lang wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Bill Vance wrote:
>
>       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.
>
>
> you do realize that if the application is reserving space for a piece of
> graphics, changing that size without the application knowing about it isn't
> goign to end up working well, right?
>
>
>
> Too tiny, or too huge, it's allrerady there, which is why it
> needs adjustment.
>
>
> you can't solve the problem at the global level, you have to force the
> application writers to 'do the right thing'
>
>
>
> If the means are put out there globally, they'll have to
> change their ways if they want their work to continue being
> useful, and up to date.  Otherwise it's headed for Ashcanistan.
>
>
> Windows does this because they only allow you one way to do things, and if
> you do it differently, it will break on the next windows update (and it may
> anyway)
>
> On Linux, there are many ways to do things, and you can't force the
> application writers to do the right thing.
>
>
> There are only so many ways to print text.  If the means are
> there to correct this problem, then they have no excuse
> whatsoever for being useless arsewipes about not using them.
>
> Bill
>
> David Lang
>
>
>
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