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I really REALLY want to use Pharo to build something significant -- I love the ideas behind Smalltalk -- but I've been disappointed every time I've tried. My p
by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I really REALLY want to use Pharo to build something significant -- I love the ideas behind Smalltalk -- but I've been disappointed every time I've tried.
My problem is that, in 2023, Pharo still doesn't support high DPI displays, which means it's a blurry mess on every single display currently in my house.
It's blurry on my M1 MacBook Pro, on my PC with Windows 11, and on the Lenovo X1 with Ubuntu I owned briefly during the pandemic. It's blurry on all the external monitors I own. If I could run it on my iPad, I bet it would be blurry on my iPad too.
Bumping up the font size in the IDE settins is a reasonable workaround for this issue, but it's not a good long-term solution. While it makes the text in the IDE readable, other UI elements are still either comically tiny or blurry, depending on your settings. Sometimes there are some UI elements that scale up with the font size, and others that don't, which results in an inconsistent UI that's hard to use.
MacBooks have had "retina" screens since 2012, and 4k displays are increasingly becoming more common. I hope Pharo will eventually support proper UI scaling, because I can't try out your cool futuristic IDE if I can't even see it properly!
- melvinroest 3y agoHmm odd, I develop on an M1 Pro and I feel fine with how Pharo looks.