I reported this to the Qt team and they said "This doesn't seem like a bug in Qt." :-(
On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 4:25:31 PM UTC-7 jeffer...@gmail.com wrote: > I just tried out the VLC player under Xubuntu 22.04 and I'm seeing the > same oversized font scaling problem that I observe in Clementine. I > checked and VLC is also using the Qt library as opposed to GTK that most > other apps use, so I'm now thinking that it is this library acting up. Qt > 5.15.3 seems to be the libraries installed here. I've never used Qt so > I'm blind at this point, but does this provide a clue that might lead to a > fix or a workaround? Does the user have the ability to set some config > options for Qt that might reign these tools back into a more usable state? > Thanks for any pointers. > > On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 5:42:10 AM UTC-7 jeffer...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I thought a screenshot would help to explain the problem. Here is a link: >> >> http://cjsa.com/misc/clementine_01.jpg >> >> Everything is magnified, including the star ratings. >> >> I looked in ~/.config/Clementine/Clementine.conf for any clues as to >> fonts that could be adjusted. I found: >> >> [OSDPretty] >> font="Verdana,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0" >> >> [SongInfo] >> font_size=8.5 >> >> I stopped Clementine, changed the font_size to 5.5 and changed the >> Verdana value of 9 to 5, and then restarted it with no effect. Any idea >> why changing these values has no effect? Is there something else that can >> be tweaked? >> >> As far as I know, I'm still running the same binary in >> /usr/bin/clementine as I was before upgrading to Xubuntu 22.04. >> >> The current deb package is 1.4.0~rc1+git347-gfc4cb6fc7+dfsg-2 >> >> If anyone is still on Ubuntu 20.04, could they please check to see if >> this is the same, or if an earlier build was installed. Since this is the >> only application displaying this font scaling problem, I'm still focusing >> on the problem being with Clementine rather than elsewhere. If we could >> pin things down between builds, that would be useful. >> On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 5:11:01 PM UTC-7 jeffer...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I recompiled clementine from source and the fonts still remain too >>> large, so I'm still looking for any pointers as to what happened in Xubuntu >>> that is responsible for this strange behavior. >>> >>> On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 8:52:00 PM UTC-7 jeffer...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Clementine 1.4 rc2 >>>> >>>> I'm on Xubuntu. I just upgraded from 20.02 to 22.02.1 and it was a >>>> miserable experience with many things breaking. I'm getting back to >>>> normal >>>> now and Clementine is operating fine, but it is now scaling fonts much too >>>> big and I cannot determine why. It is the only app exhibiting this >>>> behavior. I have two 4K screens (3840x2160). In Settings->Display, the >>>> monitor Scale factor is set to 1x just as it was previously and everything >>>> other than Clementine displays as it always has. The Clementine window >>>> itself seems OK with labels appearing correct, but the fonts in the tabs, >>>> sidebar and playlist windows are much too large. I'm not positive if the >>>> fonts used in the Preferences and Pull-down menus are bigger than before >>>> since I have nothing to compare them to at this point, but I think they >>>> are >>>> also too big. I don't see any place to adjust the font. >>>> >>>> Any idea what may have happened and how I can get this back to a normal >>>> size? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/22823cb3-28ee-4aef-9a0d-c23bed414ab0n%40googlegroups.com.
