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>That aside, high dpi displays are still a rare sight on desktops No, they aren't. ALL displays these days are high-dpi, when you compare to the 640x480 and 8
by shiroiuma 3y ago
>That aside, high dpi displays are still a rare sight on desktops
No, they aren't. ALL displays these days are high-dpi, when you compare to the 640x480 and 800x600 screens that were normal in the late 1990s. But the window managers back then were FAR better (in functionality and appearance) than what most of us use today.
- masklinn 3y ago> No, they aren't. Yeah they are. > ALL displays these days are high-dpi, when you compare to the 640x480 and 800x600 screens that were normal in the late 1990s. Leaving side your wilful misunderstanding of fairly standard concepts, no they are not: the monitors you are talking about were generally tiny, and the minor increase in median pixel density was largely counteracted by the blocky precision of LCD pixels.
- mort96 3y agoIn modern parlance, "high-DPI" or "HiDPI" does not refer to your 24" 1080p screen. That's solidly a "low-DPI" screen; it's perfectly usable with UI elements rendered at "1x".
- steve1977 3y agoNot really. DPI is dots per inch. As screens were much smaller then, their DPI (or rather PPI) wasn’t much less. For example, Macintosh was 72 ppi for a long time ( it is 109 ppi now). My first LCD screen was 15“. And that was for a desktop, not a laptop. 17“ or 19“ were for rich guys or graphics designers ;) What is certainly the case though is that GUIs nowadays are much more wasteful with space.