On 15/04/2020 07:26, Marc MERLIN wrote:
I'm upgrading from a thinkpad P70 to a P73 (both have 4K 17" LCDs).
I upgraded last year to a HP Envy 17" and unfortunately e was causing
problems. At the time I switched to cinnamon (as I'm using Mint 19.2)
because I was under serious time pressure. Now is probably a good time
for me to revisit it and document what it's not doing.
I figured that before I put all my environment back on top, I should try
another WM and maybe a DM to see how things have progressed.
Pretty much anything else is a step backwards from
I'm going to skip gnome, I doubt I'll like it given how they are ok with
change things between versions and remove options that people are using.
No WM is immune to that.
One thing that makes it difficult for me to use anything but E (been
using it for over 20 years since e16), is that I'm so used [...]
Same, for similar reasons.
Incidentally, edge flip to traverse the desktops is sooooo useful:
Carsten, you're right to be stubborn — I cannot see why people would
want it removed, even if they're not using it themselves.
The biggest unresolved problem in *using* e is nothing to do with e
itself AFAIK: it's the insistence of arrogant and thoughtless app
developers that they refuse to honour the font size and cursor size of
the WM *without reference to the screen size*. This means that some apps
work fine and legibly on a 4K 17" screen but others are ludicrously tiny
and provide no way to enlarge the interface font, and the cursor is
about 3 pixels. The result is that many apps are quite literally
unusable unless you have a magnifying-glass. They don't even always
support (eg) cinnamon. Have a look at what I installed last week: the
authors say there is no way to fix it.
http://silmaril.ie/screenshots/editix-on-hp-envy-17in-laptop-under-mint19.png
Peter
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