nikos wrote: 2025 Jun 14, 06:08
the skin was old, you could have mentioned it earlier. Anyway the installer includes the 48 skin and uses it if your system is huge dpi automatically
what you don't understand (probably) is that OC developer doesn't have to do anything to scale his application. It is all done freely for him by the modern framework he is using. xplorer2 on the other way has do do everything manually and without any assistance from the OS. It is a complete waste of my time and sadly the past few years I was spending more time on multimonitor DPI and dark mode than adding anything useful. And I only have a single monitor (laptop) myself!
you need to keep that in mind when you are complaining that the toolbar font isn't
exactly same as the menu font
o tempora, o mores 
re:skin - I thought I had a long time back, but I've forgotten. I just now (well, a few days ago now) used the blog link that you linked to and that is when I re-discovered the skin was not working correctly. Before that it was simply loading the default skin_48, I assume.
Not being exactly the same is not a problem, I'm pretty positive that I said some scale of it. But for whatever odd reason, it gets reset on clean installs and pulling in my settings from prior to the clean install makes it all go wonky.
Every.
Single.
Time.
What I do understand is that the exact reason why you have to develop everything by hand because of the independence from the OS is exactly why I made reference to it being antiquated. Because it's not assembly level programming that you're doing here, and I understand that. But your workflow is not my workflow, and for a long time X² was my only go to - as you know from the many conversations we've had and the many times I've tested stuff.
The simply fact of the matter is that his works for the simple things I need it to do and doesn't kill my eyes, and yours handles the robust stuff that his cannot do (which is getting less and less every iteration).
Think of it as having a passenger car for daily commutes and such, versus a workhorse truck for heavy duty stuff. Should I only drive my truck when it makes sense to own a nice, new, smaller, faster, and more economical car? While some in the world might say yes, I find that kind of thinking rather stupid but at the same time, I don't see why the truck has to be affected by the car's presence, daily use, or anything else. The truck, which can do things the car cannot, is also old, but not easily replaceable, for a variety of reason, the car is, in many different ways.
If X² had a pure dark-theme-based layout, I would never have looked elsewhere - but I don't just open it for a few seconds at a time - my multi-pane browser is open for hours on end. I've mentioned more than a few times that light backgrounds hurt my eyes tremendously. Even in this web page I use an addon in Firefox to make the page dark anyway. Same as with a large truck - it hurts (financially) to drive that thing to work every day because it drinks gas.
Does that make it worth calling a competitor a browser? That is where I took umbrage, because by and large, if it could not do what I needed it to do, I would obviously not have been using it daily.
