Re: HiDPI issues

[Narcis Garcia <informatica 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 gmail com
> <mailto:iem10393 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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