On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> > wrote: > > On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > >> "Yes, this means you'll be a better programmer if you get a bigger > monitor." > > > > FWIW, I got a 24" LCD display for this reason, but it turns out to be > > slightly too large. I have to turn my neck to see the entire screen. > > Increase the distance between the screen and your eyes. HHOS. > > Something which I've long thought should be done but which no > mainstream OS GUI I've seen does well is increasing screen resolution > to increase quality of rendering while keeping the human information > density per inch around the same. Practial upshot: Fonts and window > trim and the like rendered at a high DPI to improve their legiability, > while keeping text and widget sizes big for the many people who have > poorer eyesight. I know plenty of people who can't make out anything > at a resolution much higher than 1024x768. We've got these huge LCD > panels and tons of graphics horsepower being used for word processing > and spreadsheets; it'd be nice to put that to use making things easier > to read. > > (I run my LCDs at their highest resolution and a small font size; > I'm not one of those people. But I sympathize with their plight.) > > -- Ben > I've got 2 dell P1130 monitors running 1856(?) x 1440. Upgrading from Fedora 11 to 12 had brought them down from 19xx x 1600 My eyes are finally needing larger pixels so I left it. I find myself using ctrl-shift-+/- in firefox & gnome-terminal these days to increase the fonts of the content. I don't think most OSen let you do that Now one monitor's red is going. Try finding a monitor with > 1200 vertical. 1440 to 1200 is a big drop in screen realestate.
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