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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by vlasta2 on Monday October 29, 2012 @03:25PM (#4713995)
> Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling.

This is not true. Windows has had very good support for custom resolutions since Vista. Windows 7 actually looks great when set to higher resolution. Windows applications is another story, but the number of DPI aware applications is growing http://www.rw-designer.com/DPI-aware

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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by eropple on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:42PM (#4714359)
"Windows," if defined as "the windowing library", does. Even Explorer doesn't work correctly at 200% DPI scaling (you get a tiny nav bar and a really long search bar). It's junk.

What's worse is that VS2012 is nearly unusable because IntelliSense explodes all over the screen. I have many sads when I have to deal with that on my rMBP.

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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by vlasta2 on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:58PM (#4714410)
you can drag the splitter between the navbar and searchbar to adjust the sizes as you see fit...

VS2012 is still a problem though

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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by eropple on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @07:49PM (#4720377)
At 200% DPI, I can't even find the splitter. Like, my mouse cursor doesn't change to the two-headed arrow.
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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by hugoc on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:57PM (#4715236)
Windows seems to have to have the support, but is not widely used http://techreport.com/review/23631/how-windows-8-scaling-fai...
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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by seanmcdirmid on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:39PM (#4714344)
I didn't see a list of DPI aware applications at the link you gave me, is that a typo?
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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by vlasta2 on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:58PM (#4714414)
that was not the list of applications, but a guide on how to write one with and example at the end
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Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes by seanmcdirmid on Monday October 29, 2012 @05:22PM (#4714528)
I want to know what applications are already DPI-aware and could run on say...a Retina MacBook Pro running bootcamp and Windows 8. As far as I can tell, there are no such apps yet, even Microsoft's own Office. But I would be happy to be corrected!
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