However, the high resolution display on the Helix 2
made small icons (anything in Chrome, for example) difficult to target in desktop mode.
Not exact matches
The MyPlate
icon is a reminder to
make healthy choices from each of the five food groups, and there are many
small changes you can
make that add up to big success over time.
The
small injection of color at her wrist elevates what would otherwise be a hum - drum, neutral outfit and is the stuff that fashion
icons are
made of.
You should also
make the
icons larger so that they are easier to locate on
smaller screens.
Some of the
icons are quite
small, too,
making them tricky to hit while you're driving.
«Using variations of the GM
small block in these races is another example of what continues to
make the engine the
icon it is,» said Dan Nicholson, GM Powertrain
small block chief engineer.
It's worth noting, however, that because the iPad mini pixels are squeezed into
smaller screen, the iPad mini's display is somewhat crisper than the iPad 2, and
makes some of the text, like labels under app
icons and the time, super tiny.
made me pull my app too * rolls eyes... so you could fit
small print in a 80 x 80 square
icon with rounded corner previously?
The
icons and interaction is all very
small and its really easy to
make mistakes, even with the font and
icons jacked up.
However, this high resolution
makes it difficult to tap
small icons in the desktop mode of Windows 8.
This way you can tone down the interface by
making icons smaller or putting them into a «List View.»
Also, on
small screens like this, that resolution
makes icons difficult to tap, and touch screens with tightly spaced content tricky to navigate.
SE did a little dizzy on Gingerbread by adding four customizable shortcut
icons to the corners of the screen (which um,
makes the
small screen even
smaller, but whatever).
My only complaint is that the high resolution and
small display
makes for some hard - to - read text and
icons, but that can be adjusted in the system settings.
While reading a book, pressing the
small Aa
icon on the lower right side of the screen brings up a menu that allows you to
make the text
smaller or larger, shrink the line spacing, control the brightness, choose your page turn effect, turn page numbers on or off, or use the night mode.
It
makes viewing the command list more difficult as the
small icons that indicate what moves to do are too blurry to easily
make out at a glance.
The only mark against the game's presentation is the unusually
small icons for type and status effects, this
makes seeing certain information at a glance more difficult.
Unfortunately there is an issue with scaling on certain devices (930,
Icon, and 640XL) which
makes the UI too
small to be usable, and we need to add code to support new scaling thresholds for these devices.
For starters, it's now noticeably more compact —
icons are now
smaller, centered and closer together compared to the 7.1 / 8.0 navbar,
making one - handed usage easier for big phones.
If you want to
make a folder look like anything but a
small grid or stack of
icons in Action Launcher, you have to enable the folder's Cover, then change the
icon of that first app in the folder.
Oddly, the phone was set to run at a reduced resolution by default, not taking advantage of all the pixels, and actually
making text and
small icons blurry.
Decreasing the value will give you larger
icons and
make text easier to read, while increasing it will
make on - screen elements
smaller and fit more content on the screen.
While you can always Pin or Unpin
icons to add or remove them, by simply
making the
icons smaller, more space will be
made available on the taskbar.
«Displays on the Pixel (1080p) and the Pixel XL (Quad HD) both look great, with deep blacks thanks to the use of AMOLED screens, and both benefit from the new Pixel Launcher, which
makes the software navigation buttons present in Android
smaller, and which also has
smaller, rounder
icons throughout and a new Google launcher that also takes up less space.
I tested Remote Play on the Xperia Z3 and the Xperia Z3 +, and also on the Z3 Compact, and found that the larger screens of the Z3 and Z3 + worked better, as they displayed full 1080p high definition, and
made text and
icons that have originally been designed for much larger displays, slightly easier to read than on the Z3 Compact's
smaller display.
For that, you can tap and hold the
icon of the particular app, so that it shows two options — where you can drag from the corner to
make the size bigger or
smaller.
There are
smaller icons for the rest — WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS etc which could have been
made bigger to use up the screen real estate.
So far, Apple has
made only very
small moves towards that, only going as far as reserving an
icon for such an app.
You can also zoom into and out here to
make the text bigger or
smaller, and there's a permanent phone
icon at the top of the screen to jump you into a phone call with the current message recipient.
So with the bigger version of the O having been replaced with an Oreo, it
makes sense that the
smaller icon versions of the same O dotted throughout Oreo's interface and system would have also been replaced with
small Oreo - branded
icons.
This is a
small update on the change to
icons it
made in Android 7.1 Nougat that debuted on the Pixels last year.
However, it does feature the important Nougat changes, such as the ability to change the display resolution and font size, to
make icons and text bigger or
smaller.
Android Nougat lets you change the size of your display to
make text and
icons larger or
smaller.