However unwisely it was phrased, it is a valid comment. No program should have to dictate the user environment it runs in like that. It is up to the programmer to respect the user interface choices the user has made for their own viewing comfort, not impose what
they think is best or most convenient.
If the user needs large fonts or icons because they have poor vision, or more simply they have a big screen with a very high dpi (now very common), why should they be prevented from running a program? Show some result, but don't refuse to run at all! It's a good thing MS Word or
<insert your own favourite application, yep, any one at all> doesn't work that way...
If it's a limitation in the software/compiler/library being used to build the application, then it's just bad software/compiler/library - you can always get a better version without this ridiculous limitation and recompile.
Kudos to the group for supporting Felix as if he was being personally "attacked". But realistically, however unfriendly it sounds, however amazing and useful the software is, this is a poor programming limitation that I hope Felix will explore a way to fix in a newer version.
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