Thank you very much for explaining what Pharo is in one sentence on the linked page. Seriously, other projects and submissions should take notice because the general attitude is as if everybody knew exactly what your project is and what can be used for.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Retina displays don't matter because the majority of your users don't have them. Problem solved :)
Surely most decent laptops being sold are HiDPI at this point?
But not real HiDPI. AFAIK Windows 10 just treats FullHD (1080p) as HiDPI and scales everything up to 125% by default but I always switch it back to 100% so I have reasonable screen space capacity. If the 13-inch displays were 4K that would be HiDPI.
Re: Pharo 9
#33Thank you very much for explaining what Pharo is in one sentence on the linked page. Seriously, other projects and submissions should take notice because the general attitude is as if everybody knew exactly what your project is and what can be used for.
Similarly, they gain points for including a screenshot, but then lose those points for the bizarre photo-like cropping and skewing.
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#34Purely object oriented languages did fall out of fashion lately. While the environment looks sophisticated, I have the feeling I would bet on a limping horse?
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#35Are there any good general examples for Pharo in the wild? I've seen it a few times in some niche industries used as a replacement for Visual Basic or some proprietary 4GL stack.
An interesting project for devs is Glamorous Toolkit (https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit) as an experiment/exploration of better dev tooling.
Re: Pharo 9
#36This is a long list of rare features that make Pharo interesting: https://pharo.org/features
What is also rare is the quality of the site. Impressive.
Re: Pharo 9
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely most decent laptops being sold are HiDPI at this point?
But not real HiDPI. AFAIK Windows 10 just treats FullHD (1080p) as HiDPI and scales everything up to 125% by default but I always switch it back to 100% so I have reasonable screen space capacity. If the 13-inch displays were 4K that would be HiDPI.
Traditional (~110 DPI, what Windows and MacOS were designed for) 13" resolution is 1280 or 1366. So 200% that is merely 2560+
Re: Pharo 9
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
But not real HiDPI. AFAIK Windows 10 just treats FullHD (1080p) as HiDPI and scales everything up to 125% by default but I always switch it back to 100% so I have reasonable screen space capacity. If the 13-inch displays were 4K that would be HiDPI.
Traditional (~110 DPI, what Windows and MacOS were designed for) 13" resolution is 1280 or 1366. So 200% that is merely 2560+
Ok, if it would be 2560 vertically on a 13" screen that's fair to consider it HiDPI but for 1280p on 15" this is questionable yet Windows does just this.I understand this is good for the vendors (who can claim they are selling you HiDPI - FullHD doesn't sound impressive enough anymore) and visually impaired people (that's actually great they are treated as the primary audience now). Perhaps this also is good as some sort of transition period so the technology gets introduced gradually while the screens still are not too dense and non-aware apps don't just become unusable instantly.
Re: Pharo 9
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traditional (~110 DPI, what Windows and MacOS were designed for) 13" resolution is 1280 or 1366. So 200% that is merely 2560+
Ok, if it would be 2560 vertically on a 13" screen that's fair to consider it HiDPI but for 1280p on 15" this is questionable yet Windows does just this.I understand this is good for the vendors (who can claim they are selling you HiDPI - FullHD doesn't sound impressive enough anymore) and visually impaired people (that's actually great they are treated as the primary audience now). Perhaps this also is good as some…
We're talking horizontal resolution. No need for "p" obfuscation from the TV world!
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#40And 10 years later still no proper support for retina displays. I really think you should get your priorities straight.
It could be the priorities of these unpaid volunteers that you are not paying for do not align with yours. I’m sure they would invite you to contribute your improvements.