On 2024-05-21 11:34:01 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 5/21/24 1:56 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: > > What really pisses me nowadays is that most applications using > > QT5/QT6/GTK3 cannot handle HDPI displays at all. And the color presets - > > even for dark mode - try to rebuild the user experience on shaby first > > generation TFTs with 1:100 contrast ratio. Just a PITA to get these color > > schemes to actually use good contrast. And the fonts ... who teaches > > devopers to make pick the smallest, contrast-less fonts possible and > > don't let the user escape that hell? Thin pastel fonts on gray backgroud, > > really? > > I think this derives from a couple of places: 1) smart phones and > tablets, and 2) developers using monitors bigger than most TVs. Either > way developers lose any sense of proportion or usability. > > I have been complaining about small fonts for about 20 years, especially > web sites. Now that I am old and grumpy, small fonts are poison for > folks like me. > > Those developers with big monitors likely test only for big monitors and > smart phones. Often they do not seem to test for anything in between > such as laptops and modest home systems. Haven't you heard? Nobody uses desktop systems anymore. :-> Thank goodness TDE allows one to adjust the DPI to compensate for this. It might be nice, though, if it could look at the monitor characteristics and guess what a useful setting could be. My monitor is 30" 2560x1080 and 120DPI works well, but the laptop is worse: 15" 1920x1080, and 120DPI is marginal at best. > > I struggle with this in the house network. TV is 37" 1920x1080, office > desktop is 22" 1920x1080, laptop 1 is 15" 1920x1080, laptop 2 is 14" > 1280x800. Testing systems include 19" 1680x1050, 21" 1600x900 monitor, > 17" 1280x1024, and 15" 1024x768. > > Back in the day of 4:3 aspect ratios, there was not much choice and > video cards were designed for that. Nowadays monitor sizes and > resolutions are all over the place. I don't think developers and > engineers have really caught up. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
