Bug#986821: freecad: Garbled menu makes freecad unusable

Tobias Frost tobi at debian.org
Thu Oct 21 15:13:39 BST 2021


Hi Michael,

FWIIW, I've recompiled a git snapshort for freecad and got the same result.
So possibly you should report this issue upstream at the upstream bug tracker...

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 03:01:27PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:54:14PM +0200, Michael Jarosch wrote:
> > Checked the actual state of freecad in testing, again, and noticed: scales
> > >1 are okay, scales <1 lead to garbled fonts and icons.
> > So, still the problem's not fixed.
> 
> Thanks for the follow up.
> I can also see the garbling, when setting the (font) scaling in gnome-tweaks to e.g 0.9...
> 
> When installing freecad from flatpak: the same. (The version there was ~ May 2021)
> 
> I've tested an few other qt5 apps, they are all behaving ok...
> 
> So I guess it could be an FreeCAD upstream issue... (HiDPI support is still marked as
> WIP, and this is probably in this domain...)
> 
> --
> tobi



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