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  • There is nothing in windows that’s a small tweak.
    Changing anything has implications to a banking business Joe somewhere, who’s program depends on the original feature working as it does, or one of the 16 layers of code is simply tangled in a way such change would require cascade of rewrites.

    I’ve read articles about various developments: working with regex registry*, or just adding a control panel option, and it’s an absolute nightmare.






  • filcuk@lemmy.ziptoGames@lemmy.worldSteam's new store menu is officially here
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    I get why people are against the change, but there are many reasons why majority of websites do the same.
    I can’t speak to the particular width limit steam has chosen, but if you take any website and remove width restrictions, you’ll quickly find out why.

    Trying to read a block of text? Now it’s a single line spanning your whole monitor.
    Trying to scroll a gallery using a button on the side? You have to move your cursor across the whole screen to choose between left and right.
    Want to look at various images? You now have to turn your entire head.
    God help the designers if they try to put out a coherent set of visuals that works on 4:3 and ultra-wide* both.

    This didn’t really use to be an issue, but monitors and resolutions have gotten both huge and varied. It’s hard enough to accommodate mobile and desktop.