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Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions
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[SUGGESTION] Replace retina icon / sort non-retina resolutions separately #31

Open Rastafabisch opened 3 years ago

Rastafabisch commented 3 years ago

I feel like the likening bolt is just there because there was nothing fitting at the time, and I must admit I am not sure there is now. First of, I think it would appear much cleaner, if it wasn't an emoji style symbol. While I'm not certain which character would be right I got some that came to mind.

⤢ - pretty self-explanatory

⊞ - representing the (original) four to one pixel ratio of apples retina displays

☑︎/✔︎ - check, it's retina!

✩/❊ - still better than ⚡️?

● - possibly coloured green?

PS: What about just having non-retina resolution written in a faded/lighter color or dividing the menu into two/multiple lists by a separator? Retina … non-retina (… non-native aspect ratios)

Rastafabisch commented 3 years ago

This is somewhat related.

jnooree commented 3 years ago

For the replacements, I think the lightning icon is more significant than them. It is not clear (not even implicit) as you pointed, but I think most users would just need to find out which is the "better". For the filtering tasks, I guess separating Retina and non-Retina modes will be a quite simple work, while figuring out the native aspect ratio will not.

PS. I suspect that if this app explicitly separates the Retina and non-Retina modes, then the "makrs" would be unnecessary. Please share your thoughts about this.

Rastafabisch commented 3 years ago

PS. I suspect that if this app explicitly separates the Retina and non-Retina modes, then the "makrs" would be unnecessary. Please share your thoughts about this.

I would think so, too.