HiDPI issues
Narcis Garcia
informatica at actiu.net
Sun May 17 08:43:02 UTC 2015
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 totally outdated, Skype is not adapted to HiDPI: All the fonts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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