My laptop has a display resolution of 1366x768. Every now and then, I’ll encounter a window whose default height is over 768 and thus won’t fit entirely within my screen. The GTK file picker comes to mind, though it is resizable without much fuss. But then there are those that cannot be resized and being unable to move the titlebar further up, I am forced to use Alt+F7 to see what’s at the bottom.

I suspect that many programs today are designed to work comfortably on higher resolution displays, but not really tested on smaller ones. Understandably, developers only have so much time and 1366x768 is getting long in the tooth. Just wanted to put this out there since nobody seems to be talking about it.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    I’m in the camp of liking the padding and rounding to the point of having themed a bunch of sites to look similar with user css

    I am however usually on high res screens and am in the habit of removing everything unnecessary from the screen to make space with my theming

    Also generally if I open graphical applications at all it’s because I want it to look nice and clean, if I wanted pure space efficiency I’d just use the terminal for everything all the time