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by NoBSWebDesign 6107 days ago
I think I must be missing something here. Don't people set their screens to higher resolutions because they want to see more stuff on their screen.

I always assume that people set their resolutions such that they can read normal-sized (12-14pt) text. If that's too small for their eyes, they would have set their screens to a lower resolution. As someone who likes to see a lot at once, this would probably irritate me.
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iigs 6107 days ago
Yeah, their example goes exactly the wrong way for me. I use Terminal 6 (or XTerm "Tiny") on a 1600x1200 15" LCD, and I don't use Antialiasing because at this font size every pixel counts, I don't need 6 blurry pixels, I need 9 sharp ones.

All of this said, there's no reason why, if they provide proper instrumentation/controls, that I couldn't use a resolution independent display to crank the UI down to tiny size (tell it that I have low DPI) and provide a lot of screen real estate.

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naz 6107 days ago
It is for monitors with a higher DPI
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