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Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by sylv3r on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:56AM (#33243884)
> On the flip side, the only thing I want Jetbrains to do is implement proper UI scaling.

Oh man I'm still mad that if I want to present my Jetbrains IDE screen and make it readable, I have to change 2 fonts, one for the editor, one for the interface.

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by happymellon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:25AM (#33244068)
It's nice that it's being an accepted point of view this time.

Usually I get a lot of aggressive responses about how I don't understand presentation mode. I do, and it's crap.

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by jen20 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:32AM (#33246848)
By contrast, I only want the content to scale, and actively cannot stand entire UIs scaling and looking and feeling like web pages. If this was ever implemented, it would need an opt-out to please us both.
Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by happymellon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:07AM (#33247348)
Which is fine. As I already mentioned, even if they just had a text scaling which applied to all the editors so I didn't have to keep doing it every time I opened a file that would be a massive QOL improvement.
Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by jen20 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:31AM (#33246830)
Shift shift -> Enter Presentation Mode.

(Replace shift shift with whatever you have the “everything” search bound to).

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by happymellon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:05AM (#33247329)
Presentation mode is terrible for doing code pairing, code presentations, or really anything that involves screen sharing.
Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by wasyl on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:14AM (#33247490)
Curious why is that, what are the pain points specifically? I use it often when presenting and the only downside is that presentation mode forces full screen (on mac)
Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by happymellon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:56AM (#33249373)
I lose my terminal, file tabs, project navigation.

For presenting, it is very specific on how it is meant to be used, which is not how I would present during a screen sharing exercise.

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by wasyl on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:02PM (#33279162)
That's not entirely true, you can bring up all of those (maybe except tabs, I don't use them) while in presentation mode, you can do that with all windows. They even have bigger fonts so they're also readable
Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by jen20 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:36AM (#33247861)
Presentation mode has worked well for me for code presentation for a decade both in-person on a projector and for screen sharing, across hundreds of talks. If you believe otherwise, let’s hear why rather than some kind of assertion that it must be true because you said so.

For the others… well, it’s not called screen sharing mode or code pairing mode.

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by happymellon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:51AM (#33249291)
> For the others… well, it’s not called screen sharing mode or code pairing mode.

So you agree that it doesn't work that great for the scenarios that I've been talking about?

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by jen20 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:25PM (#33254879)
But great for the scenario that the person I actually responded to described.