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by sylv3r 1340 days ago
> On the flip side, the only thing I want Jetbrains to do is implement proper UI scaling.

Oh man I'm still mad that if I want to present my Jetbrains IDE screen and make it readable, I have to change 2 fonts, one for the editor, one for the interface.
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happymellon 1340 days ago
It's nice that it's being an accepted point of view this time.

Usually I get a lot of aggressive responses about how I don't understand presentation mode. I do, and it's crap.

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jen20 1340 days ago
By contrast, I only want the content to scale, and actively cannot stand entire UIs scaling and looking and feeling like web pages. If this was ever implemented, it would need an opt-out to please us both.
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happymellon 1340 days ago
Which is fine. As I already mentioned, even if they just had a text scaling which applied to all the editors so I didn't have to keep doing it every time I opened a file that would be a massive QOL improvement.
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jen20 1340 days ago
Shift shift -> Enter Presentation Mode.

(Replace shift shift with whatever you have the “everything” search bound to).

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happymellon 1340 days ago
Presentation mode is terrible for doing code pairing, code presentations, or really anything that involves screen sharing.
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jen20 1340 days ago
Presentation mode has worked well for me for code presentation for a decade both in-person on a projector and for screen sharing, across hundreds of talks. If you believe otherwise, let’s hear why rather than some kind of assertion that it must be true because you said so.

For the others… well, it’s not called screen sharing mode or code pairing mode.

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happymellon 1340 days ago
> For the others… well, it’s not called screen sharing mode or code pairing mode.

So you agree that it doesn't work that great for the scenarios that I've been talking about?

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jen20 1339 days ago
But great for the scenario that the person I actually responded to described.
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wasyl 1340 days ago
Curious why is that, what are the pain points specifically? I use it often when presenting and the only downside is that presentation mode forces full screen (on mac)
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happymellon 1340 days ago
I lose my terminal, file tabs, project navigation.

For presenting, it is very specific on how it is meant to be used, which is not how I would present during a screen sharing exercise.

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wasyl 1337 days ago
That's not entirely true, you can bring up all of those (maybe except tabs, I don't use them) while in presentation mode, you can do that with all windows. They even have bigger fonts so they're also readable
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