HiDPI issues
drago01
drago01 at gmail.com
Sun May 17 10:20:43 UTC 2015
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
> 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.
I have no idea what you mean here those should be fine.
>> * 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.
Those are indeed application specific. Currently mostly only GTK3
applications support
HIDPI ... QT5 ones do if you set an env var.
>> * 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.
Never seen something like this ... did the application override the
cursor (theme)?
>> * 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.
This is/will be fixed with Chrome 43 (not really a gnome issue).
>> * 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.
This is fixed in Firefox 38 (again not really a gnome issue).
>> * 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.
Fonts should adapt because we set xft-dpi as for the rest yeah ...
they'd probably have to port
it to QT5 to get proper hidpi support.
>> * 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.
Well the way forward for legacy apps that will probably never support
hidpi is to let the compositor do the scaling.
This requires wayland though see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728902
Otherwise just file bugs for the applications; the issues you noted
aren't really gnome specific.
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