Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2018-01-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 13/01/18 07:02 PM, Doug wrote: Well, I'm using KDE5 ("plasma") and I like it, but Windows 10 comes stock with a really gross interface--great big boxes on the screen for just a few apps. You can abolish that junk with a free app that makes the screen look and act like the Win 7 desktop, or

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2018-01-13 Thread Doug
On 12/27/2017 05:43 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 25/12/17 01:44, Anders Andersson wrote: If you can pull yourself from a Windows 95-era start menu and always-visible panels, try the natural and more modern and updated successor: Gnome 3. Really. I found this "modern and updated"

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/12/17 01:44, Anders Andersson wrote: If you can pull yourself from a Windows 95-era start menu and always-visible panels, try the natural and more modern and updated successor: Gnome 3. Really. I found this "modern and updated" interface to have poor usability. It felt to me like an

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread solitone
On 24/12/17 11:24, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I read that Cinnamon and MATE, both former clones of GNOME[2], have HiDPI in > mind: > is there any other possibility ? I use KDE's Plasma, which supports HiDPI pretty well.

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your reply. On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). >> >> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: >> I have been happy

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to > a retina

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I

HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low. small