HiDPI issues

[Alfredo Hernández]

Not really. They depend on the version of GTK/Qt the actual program uses.
Ideally it would work as you say, but I don't know if that's doable for
technical reasons.

Cheers,
Alfredo
On 17 May 2015 5:13 pm, "Iban Eguia" <iem10393 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm mostly concerned about the issue with the save/load dialogs, since
> shouldn't that be part of Nautilus or GNOME Shell?
>
> 2015-05-17 10:43 GMT+02:00 Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net>:
>
>> I'm using Gnome 3.8 in wide range of computers (in Trusty) and there is
>> a problem with the inverse situation (low resolution): font scale can be
>> tweaked, but not the rest of elements (icons, buttons, bars, etc.)
>>
>>
>> El 17/05/15 a les 01:10, Alfredo Hernández ha escrit:
>> > I reckon most if these errors are because of GTK+2. All of the issues
>> > you've listed seem to be directly related to apps not updated to GTK+3.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Alfredo
>> >
>> > On 16 May 2015 22:30, "Iban Eguia" <iem10393 at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:iem10393 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hi, guys, I've just bought a new computer with HiDPI display, and
>> >     I'm experiencing some issues with it. I suppose that most of them
>> >     will not be related to Ubuntu GNOME as a distribution, but in any
>> >     case, I wanted to sum them up here so that you could tell me if
>> >     they're related to the distribution, to GNOME or to specific
>> >     applications. And, if it is the case that some of them could be
>> >     solved from the distribution itself maybe we could do something
>> >     about it, and I include myself, as I'm finishing my IT degree and
>> >     maybe I could contribute. So, since I don't want to extend myself
>> >     much longer, here I summarize these issues:
>> >
>> >       * Icons too small in save/load windows: Even if the icons in
>> >         Nautilus are fine, in the load/save windows, (such as when I try
>> >         to save something from Firefox or I open something in
>> >         LibreOffice appear too small, and its difficult to see them
>> >         properly.
>> >       * Icons too small in some applications: In Filezilla or
>> >         ProjectLibre, I see that the icons are really small, what leads
>> >         to an unpleasant user experience. I think that this is only
>> >         related to certain applications, so probably they don't fit as a
>> >         bug of the distribution.
>> >       * In some circumstances, the cursor changes to Low DPI: For
>> >         example, in Tweetdeck in Firefox or in Telegram Desktop, the
>> >         cursor, only in some sections changes back to Low DPI and it's
>> >         shown really small. I have seen this happen with the zoom
>> >         cursor, with the hand cursor and with the text cursor.
>> >       * Chrome totally lacks HiDPI support: I guess this should be a bug
>> >         report for Google, but as I'm trying to summarize all the errors
>> >         I find I include it here.
>> >       * Firefox does not adapt by default to HiDPI: I had to change
>> >         Firefox settings in about:config so that web pages didn't show
>> >         so small.
>> >       * In Skype, all the interface is really small: Apart from being
>> >         totally outdated, Skype is not adapted to HiDPI: All the fonts
>> >         and interfaces are really small and only adapted to low-DPI. I
>> >         understand this is a Microsoft issue.
>> >       * Spotify is not adapted to HiDPI: As it happens with Skype, it
>> >         has  all the fonts and interfaces only adapted to low-DPI.
>> >
>> >     Of course I understand that most of these can't be seen as bugs of
>> >     the distribution, but I think that should be noted so as to
>> >     understand better what is left to do with HiDPI displays both from
>> >     the distribution perspective and from the contributors perspective.
>> >     In any case, I'll try to report most of them to the respective
>> >     developer communities.
>> >
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