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It's not just the "legacy application base" or "app developers" which are at fault; even most of Windows itself is still using the old drawing libraries. As soo
by brianpgordon 13y ago
It's not just the "legacy application base" or "app developers" which are at fault; even most of Windows itself is still using the old drawing libraries. As soon as you start digging into system properties, MMC, etc, everything is horribly blurry.
But yes, apps are also broken, even very popular ones like Chrome and Steam.
- bri3d 13y agoFair point - even some of the shallowest corners of Windows itself are broken too (like Windows Media Player), although most of the other big user-facing shell apps like Explorer and IE are great. Google almost had support in Chrome 34 after a few false starts, but it looks to have been disabled yet again in current releases. Now that Windows users are trying to use Retina MacBooks via BootCamp and 2x-resolution Windows 8 tablets like the IdeaPad Yoga2 are out, the DPI scaling issue is finally starting to get mainstream exposure. Most reviews of the IdeaPad called out Chrome specifically and once 4K displays come down in price the gamer crowd will probably jump on the bandwagon as well.
- rbanffy 13y agoThere are parts just a couple clicks deep where you can see W2k-like controls.