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In my opinion it would be more logical to allow the entire task bar to shrink itself down into the Windows logo on the lefthand side like the MacOS 9 control st
by Epiphany21 5y ago
In my opinion it would be more logical to allow the entire task bar to shrink itself down into the Windows logo on the lefthand side like the MacOS 9 control strip. The user could then mouse over it or click it or use a certain key combination to restore it to the full screen width.
Getting rid of terrible widescreen monitors as the industry standard might also help (there are Chinese companies dabbling with 3:2 displays, so the market is there). The 16:9 aspect ratio is used purely to increase yields and decrease material costs. If Microsoft is mandating a TPM, they might as well mandate a display aspect ratio that makes their desktop UI semi-usable.
- hakfoo 4y agoWhat surprises me is how little overlap you see between TV and monitor panels. I figured that there was a lot of crossover due to the NTSC/ATSC transition basically occuring simultaneously with the CRT/LCD switchover. The demand to replace every TV set in the country meant they'd be making a bazillion 16:9 panels in every price and size grade imaginable. The obvious assumption would be that the monitor industry would just exploit that, putting the cheap scale panels into good-enough monitors. But even in the transition era, monitors were very different. Most affordable <32" TVs were 720p until well into the 2010s. I think the trend eventually reversed-- you started to see a lot of small 1080p TVs (back in the last few years you could even get small TVs) and I suspect it was because there were loads of 21-24" 1920x1080 monitor panels on the market.