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Monitors with diagonal higher than 24 inches become more and more popular these days, but they have 'only' 1920x1080 resolution. To gain more user space on these monitors we could make all gui elements smaller- smaller fonts, thinner scrollbars, window decorations etc. Lost of things, so changing them all by hand is quite difficult. I suggest to add to monitor configuration something like 'fake resolution': the monitor would use maximal possible resolution, but all desktop elements will be smaller-sized, so it would look like we used a higher resolution.

What do you think about that?

Before thinking of such rediculous ideas, it would first be great if KDE could scale its user interface at all. With every modern desktop you can choose a screen DPI and according to this all elements get scaled, except for KDE where only the fonts get huge and everything else stays the same.

BajK - what might seem ridiculous to you is a stroke of genius in somebody else's eyes.

I for one would need a looking glass if my 27" monitor would go above 1920x1080...

I have 24" monitor with 1920x1200 (16:10) resolution and it has so on 94.34 PPI what means that single pixel size is 0.2692mm.

I would gladly take 2560x1600 for 24" size if just possible, not because graphics/text is not sharp, but because the screen space is really a small when compared to Windows what use much higer PPI settings so there is more space for windows.

The PPI feature is important as there are seniors or bad sighted people who want to use computer without glasses or read far away (because glasses) and then there are juniors who want to have more windows open at same time.

When example comparing Windows 7 at same laptop, what has 17" display with 1600x900 resolution, Windows 7 looks much better as single filemanager window does not cover almost whole display. But when compared to Dolphin, it takes almost twice as much space to show same information (not comparable by that way directly but as window size and feeling what people get using KDE).

In Windows, it is easier to change a PPI (DPI) setting but on Linux world, it is much harder and it does not offer same kind features. It is not nice to spend money to big screen to get a huge resolution and then end up having just littlebit more space than what would be thinking.

There can be a problem with Qt or KDE technologies like how the themes (like Oxygen) is drawn and its widgets as example buttons and scrollbars edges and shadows are tied to pixel sizes.