On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am in the process of buying a laptop for travel. it should be
13"-14".
relatively small and lightweight - and still with *power*.
I came across:
https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel. They have the
option to purchase with no OS installed (hooray!) and you can choose between
different CPUs, RAM configs and disk systems. It is also not very expensive
specs taken into consideration, really.
But monitor is 3200x1800 pixels on a 13" monitor. And that is the problem.
This machine is designed for Win8, where the 'tiled interface' is DPI-aware
and will scale automatically. I plan to install a dual-boot of Win7 and
Linux (SuSE or Fedora), and they will both be completely hopeless to use on
this system as everything (icons, controls) will be extremely small in
almost every interface and application.
You said in a different email that you use XFCE. That might be your
problem. I have two laptops with high resolution monitors and GNOME 3
scales things very well. F21 even more than F20, which was already
quite usable.
I dont think Linux Desktop people takes this seriously enough (or
they do
not communicate it). It will IMO take ~12 months and most laptops sold will
HiDPI support has been touted as a feature in Fedora for the past two
releases. For F21 it's explicitly listed as one for Workstation:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_release_announcement#Support_for_high_r...
Are there any efforts anywhere in the Linux world considering support
for
high monitor resolutions (auto-scaling based on DPI) like Mac/Retina and
Win8 has? What Linux desktops/window managers have it in progress? Does
anybody know?
GNOME and I believe KDE both are working on this continually. Both
are already very usable. I have no idea what XFCE is doing, nor any
of the other desktop environments.
What say? Was it too provocative?
Maybe just misinformed. Try GNOME or KDE?
josh