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Confirm or reject my suspicions about the massive default window sizes (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My laptop has a display resolution of 1366x768. Every now and then, I'll encounter a window whose default height is over 768 and thus won't fit entirely within my screen. The GTK file picker comes to mind, though it is resizable without much fuss. But then there are those that cannot be resized and being unable to move the titlebar further up, I am forced to use Alt+F7 to see what's at the bottom.

I suspect that many programs today are designed to work comfortably on higher resolution displays, but not really tested on smaller ones. Understandably, developers only have so much time and 1366x768 is getting long in the tooth. Just wanted to put this out there since nobody seems to be talking about it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When 720p display era they can do it. Why today they cann't?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I feel UI trends have gone in the direction of making things worse, not better.

I remember when it was pretty much unanimous that "mplayer" was beautiful in all its square corners glory, while "Windows Live Media Player" was seen as a horrible abomination.

Now it feels like everyone is on board with inefficient UI designs like the latter for some reason.