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why clutter the UI with completely useless options? If someone accidentally set it, they might not even be able to see to undo it.

> why clutter the UI with completely useless options?

A dropdown box does not clutter things. Seriously. It would take 10% of the space of the current weird graphics, and the new one actually frightens me: how is it going to handle setting the resolution of external displays or overhead projectors?

"A dropdown box does not clutter things. Seriously." — things an Apple engineer would never say

There are other reasons to dislike or otherwise not use dropboxes: they're technical, they're textual, they're not really intuitive and when there is a high amount of data they're unusable.

But clutter is not one of them when you replace it with a combination of two radio buttons and 5 fucking huge buttons, which altogether take about 4 times the surface of the corresponding open dropdown.

I'd put $20 on there being a hack within a week to let you "go native". We'll see.

While we're there, we may as well add the 453 non-native resolutions that nobody in their right might ever wants to use. Oh yeah, that would be Windows.