Scaling Up, Scaling Down

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re: Scaling Up, Scaling Down

Richard — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:44:50 GMT

> Just can't imagine how a primary window can be not maximized...

At 1600x1200 in word, most of the space would be wasted outside the page margins. Even if it weren't that's too long a line to comfortably follow with the eye.

(About the only things I run maximised are those were the extra width is usefully used: Visio, Project and Visual Studio (where it is the tool windows making use of the horizontal space.)

re: Scaling Up, Scaling Down

Charles — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:07:31 GMT

"I don't understand why you would want the information on the screen to get bigger as you increase the resolution."

Reduce eyestrain.

re: Scaling Up, Scaling Down

jojjp — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:34:07 GMT

I don't understand why you would want the information on the screen to get bigger as you increase the resolution. For me, the only reason I keep getting bigger screens is that i want to be able to fit more on it - having application increase in size defeats the entire purpose.

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Somebody — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:17:10 GMT

"Scaling a tab takes a lot of design effort to get right, and we spend a lot of time on the craft. Some have wondered why we don't just have a computer algorithm that decides all the layouts (or, even better, auto-optimizes them)"

How do you intend to do localizations of the UI? Spend a lot of time again for each language?

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Charles — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:27:48 GMT

"Apple has added a 'zoom' (prototype) feature to windows that allow you to magnify any window to give the effect Charles is looking for. I don't know how close this feature is to being complete, but I'd expect it in either 10.5 or 10.6. So if the text labels in (say) Word are too teeny, you can hit some widget on the titlebar of the window to 'zoom in' and magnify everything."

No, I am not looking for any effect that would require me to scroll my desktop or have parts of it appear disproportionate to other parts. What I meant that rather than running 800 x 600 at 96 dpi, I would want 1600 x 1200 at 192 dpi. Fonts would display at 16 pt instead of 8 pt, 20 pt instead of 10 pt, etc. Icons would be 32 x 32 instead of 16 x 16. There would be exactly the same amount of information on the visible screen--something 5 inches high at 800 x 600 would also be 5 inches high at 1600 x 1200--but it would look much sharper.