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16x16 icons used to be large on 640x480 screens. Microscopic controls is not how GUIs were originally intended to look.
by kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
16x16 icons used to be large on 640x480 screens. Microscopic controls is not how GUIs were originally intended to look.
- catboybotnet 3y agoThat may be the case, but microscopic controls are how some of us want our GUIs to look. Using Windows 7 with the classic theme on a 1920x1080 display was near perfection. Even for Aero, I'd have my toolbar set to small icons and CTRL+MW_DOWN on the desktop to shrink my icons. The closest I can get now is to up my display resolution to offset the giant bars that take up more of my screenspace than they need to. Not having the option really sucks.
- FireInsight 3y agoYou can change display scaling to make GNOME small.
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't care about how they were intended to look, I care about what the best look & feel is for me.
- dijit 3y agoMicroscopic.. sure, they weren't intended to look microscopic. But you're painting an inaccurate picture here, GNOME controls are a larger ratio than they've ever been to screen real estate; For context, this is how it looked on a 640x480 display https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GNOME-escritorio-1.x.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GNOME-escritorio-1.x...