Comment by mgkimsal
10 years ago
"Another regression is making stuff larger and occupying screen space with big title bars or empty white spaces."
Or ... making some stuff larger but not others.
In OSX, I can use a slider to make stuff 'bigger' in Finder, but... it only increases the icon size, not the text size, which makes using the UI from a distance impossible, even though they've got "make stuff bigger" built in.
I really wish Apple had kept the Classic MacOS UI when moving to OS X. It was so much more usable (and elegant).
OS X is freaking gaudy and I hate it. Apple as a whole just has no freaking taste these days. I just want a clean, intuitive interface that lets me run my programs and stays out of my way.
The Amiga Workbench (well, 2.0 onwards. The bright orange-on-blue color scheme of 1.x was rather distracting) was really quite nice.
I mean, there is a separate option for text size too. It seems reasonable to adjust them separately.
That's why I'm changing it to 720p while on FullHD TV. Fonts get bigger at low resolutions.
[sorry, clicked on wrong reply button]
how?
R-click on whitespace, "Show View Options" (last menu item), and there is "Text size" popup-button. Doesn't change anything except filenames, anyway.
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Odd, isn't Quartz completely made of scalable vectors, including images? I mean, it's a derivative of Display PostScript.
the images (icons) do get bigger, but not the text.
You do the command-click on the finder window pick "Show View Options" and it shows the text size. They just don't have a slider for it on the main window.