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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by garaetjjte on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:35AM (#28404745)
I wish they would just improve the old interface. It is mostly fine, but suffers from claustrophobic fixed size windows and listboxes that needed to fit on 640x480 screens. They also should make MMC toolkit DPI-aware.
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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by timw4mail on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:53AM (#28405802)
That's how this mess started, trying to re-implement the settings screens in a more "modern" design.

If they just made the original control panels work with HiDPI screens, there would be complaints that they've done nothing.

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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by 908B64B197 on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:32PM (#28411013)
There's a bunch of legacy apps that still have hardcoded pixels in the layout. It's a lost cause to try to make it work.
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