HiDPI issues

[Iban Eguia]

2015-05-17 12:20 GMT+02:00 drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>

Well, here I'm talking about the save windows. I'm including an attachment
to show it. About the rest, I understand it's not a Gnome issue.


>
> >>       * 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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