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Post subject: Re: Fuse autologin
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:54 am
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FUSE <snip> isn't high-dpi-aware, for example. <snip>
Where did you see that Fender ever represented that FUSE was to be high-dpi compliant?

Microsoft's famous "call to action" in 2001 or thereabouts, requesting from developers that going forward, all apps need to be scaling aware, either by not scaling anything, or by not mixing scalable and non-scalable elements in a scalable context. Yes, 2001. Right before XP came out.

It explained to developers just what the problems were, followed by a slew of MSDN articles on how to make applications as dpi-aware.
A decade later, customers would expect that new apps were compliant - either by being dpi-aware and scaling properly, or by having no scaling at all, so the OS scaling could handle it (at the cost of blurriness).[*]

And, indeed, almost all apps fall into one of these categories, especially those released after Windows Vista came out and scaling became the default. Those that fail are now few and far between, and those that fail so spectacularly that it's not just an issue of things looking ugly but being unusable are even more rare.

[*]: Now in 2015, there's a third category - multimonitor dpi aware, supporting multiple monitors which have different DPI settings. New apps that employ scaling are expected to handle this now, to work correctly with Windows 10. But I won't bash FUSE for not supporting that. I do expect them to support the 2001 OS feature of single-monitor DPI scaling, though.

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Asserting that FUSE is Defective is a gross and unsubstantiated overstatement! A bug is something entirely different.

This is not a bug. It's a design flaw, from the ground up, by choosing Silverlight as the presentation platform without heeding the implications. Silverlight uses the Windows compositing manager. It requires the apps that use it to be dpi-aware too, or leave it all to Silverlight.
That is not just a bug.

It's much like releasing a program that requires Soundblaster support on IRQ7 port 220 with all its routines depending on it. Without saying so on the box. It may work on many PCs, and likely older ones, but it isn't what a buyer should have to expect these days. Sure, it (and FUSE) can be run in a VM, but that isn't what today's customers expect from a new product.


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