Bug#293454: qjackctl: Display does not resize with font

[Lukas F. Hartmann]

Hi Rui,

I understand what you mean in terms that you want a compact interface, which is still no problem with the patch. The problem becomes apparent when you use a higher DPI display (sometimes called "retina display" or "hi-dpi") where assumptions about reasonable pixel sizes do not apply anymore. Here it becomes important that UIs are scalable nicely and play together with the user defined DPI and theme settings. I guess this would also help visually impaired users.

Cheers,
Lukas

On December 1, 2014 5:05:32 PM CET, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:
>On 12/01/2014 01:00 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2014-11-30 16:07 GMT+01:00 Lukas F. Hartmann <lukas at mnt.mn
>> <mailto:lukas at mnt.mn>>:
>>
>> Hello Lukas,
>>
>>     Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>     This bug is especially obvious on high resolution displays. Also,
>>     the buttons
>>     do not resize vertically, only horizontally, which leads to a
>>     cramped UI with
>>     bigger font sizes.
>>
>>     I attached a patch to fix these problems. The patch also removes
>the
>>     manual
>>     indentation of the left-aligned status labels in the main status
>>     display and
>>     rather increases the overall margin of the status display.
>>
>>     The interface is now fully scalable and looks good when disabling
>>     the "shiny
>>     background" bitmap option. I would recommend to drop this bitmap
>and
>>     its toggle
>>     option to reduce code and settings complexity for a feature that
>>     does not
>>     (IMHO) increase end user value.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the patch, I am forwarding it upstream.
>> Maybe Rui also have some idea how to improve "shiny background" to be
>> scalable too.
>>
>
>well, it wasn't ever supposed to scale as to grow in screen space that
>is.
>
>from the cradle, it was designed to stayy as is, as *low profile* as 
>much as it's possible.
>
>tbh. once you get those settings "au point", or "al dente", whatever 
>semantics better suits you, the least you get qjackctl pesking your 
>screen estate the better :)
>
>byee
>-- 
>rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
>rncbc at rncbc.org

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