Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
by gecko on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:59PM
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I agree that Windows 10 is better, but I would note that it’s only truly good for apps updated to the Windows 10 API (which differs from the Windows 8.1 one, which differed from 8.0), so I haven’t seen wide support outside whatever we’re calling UWP apps these days.
Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
by GordonS on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:08PM
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I don't use any "Windows App Store Apps" if that's what you mean by UWP apps (I did a lot of Windows desktop dev on WinForms, then some on WPF, but haven't kept up since then).
But everything I use seems to work just fine on Windows 10 across multiple monitors - Office, Visual Studio, Rider and a whole host of small applications (many old) that I doubt did anything specific to enable high DPI support.
Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
by pjmlp on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:13AM
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UWP is the modern replacement for Win32, stuck in Windows XP cryogenic state, it is not only for the store since MSIX package format got released two years ago.
Now Win32 and UWP are just two complementary sandboxed execution models, more so when Windows 10X gets released.
Erm, yes, and on Windows 10 it works just fine.
> Say what you want about MacBook owners being brand snobs, but they never have to deal with this nonsense
Not true, I think Windows 10's high-DPI support is fantastic - yes, better than MacOS.
At home I have a landscape 3K monitor daisychained to a portrait 1980x1200 monitor, and it works flawlessly on Windows 10 with both my desktop and 2 work laptops. It works on MacOS, until it doesn't - it sometimes crashes when I switch between the MBP screen and the external screens.
I have a similar setup at the office, but with 2 portrait displays - I have the same issue with my MBP.
The only OS where I have to deal with this nonsense is MacOS.