It's important that compositor does scaling as is done with fonts.
El 21/05/15 a les 11:35, Iban Eguia ha escrit: > > > 2015-05-17 12:20 GMT+02:00 drago01 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Narcis Garcia > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> 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. > > -- > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
