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I wasn't too happy when my distro upgraded from 2.8 to 2.10. The new icon set for the toolbox may be more trendy, but I have a much harder time recognizing/understanding which is which not they're all monochrome.

Glad to see HiDPI come up.

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You can change that on the settings. I know because I had the same problem and you can choose a more familiar iconset.

>You can change that on the settings.

Always a valid reply in Linux discussions.

To be fair, that's part of why I use Linux :)

Though not always in GNOME discussions j/k

"You can change that in dconf. Though maybe there is a tweak for it. Or perhaps it's a behavior you can script in gnome-shell."

More like "you can change that in dconf, but there's a bug[0] that makes it reset every time you restart the application".

[0] sotto voce "that we're probably never going to fix"

The silver lining to that is that I ended up using shortcuts that I never bothered memorizing before.

I'm so poisoned by election news that I read "Nate Silver" in your comment.

Yeah, except I guess 98% of HiDPI users are on MacOS, a platform they are currently unable to create builds for.

So I am the 2%. Glad anyway :)

It's 2020. I've been sitting in front of two 4k monitors for perhaps five years now, under Ubuntu Mate. Every month or so an HN comment implies it doesn't work. ;-)

So many years of people telling me that my exact setup does not work, yet here I am not remembering the last time I had an issue with displays on Linux. It has even gotten _better_ since I moved to Wayland which I am also told does not work.

To be fair, the last time I did was when I bought my current monitor, this year. 2560x1440, and only works properly when I log in so my X config loads.

I messed up some PAM config shortly after, and had to chroot to fix it - couldn't read a single letter I was typing (impossibly small and distorted for the number of pixels used to display them, character widths all over the place too) but manager to get it done, very carefully and slowly...

I probably should've made getting it working system wide a priority after that (maybe it's as simple as I used my user config rather than /etc, I can't remember) but I haven't. I suppose worst case I could use a different older monitor anyway.

Agree - been using 4k monitors with Fedora for years as well, and whilst there's still a few warts it's been steadily getting better and is perfectly usable.

Looking forward to seeing Gimp with native support though

Hello from the 2%.

Ya there certainly isn’t and hidpi windows or Mac users

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