Tiny reports in HiDPI

Jose Gómez adler at dreamcoder.org
Mon Dec 28 13:27:34 EST 2015


Thanks. Just reported this as
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759934

Regards,
Jose.

On 28 December 2015 at 18:13, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On Monday 28 December 2015 09:53:18 Jose Gómez wrote:
>
> > I am using Ubuntu with Cinnamon.
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> >
>
> > Other programs used to have (mostly years ago) tiny buttons or text
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> > until they implemented HiDPI support.
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> >
>
> > That support was done automatically in programs using standard
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> > libraries (such as Gtk or Qt) where HiDPI support has already been
>
> > implemented, but it took much longer with programs doing their own
>
> > rendering, such as Chrome (which took years to implement HiDPI
>
> > support), LibreOffice (some buttons were small until recently) or
>
> > Steam (where HiDPI is still not supported and everything is still
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> > tiny).
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> >
>
> > I am guessing whatever library is Gnucash using for generating reports
>
> > does not have HiDPI enabled or supported. The rest of the UI looks
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> > fine (other than the toolbar buttons being a bit on the small side).
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> > Can attach a few screenshots if needed.
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> >
>
> The reports are generated using libwebkitgtk, and an old version of it.
> It's indeed highly unlikely that it has HiDPI support.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure a more recent version does have it.
>
>
>
> Can you file a bug report in bugzilla [1] for this ?
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>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Geert
>
>
>
> [1] Refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla to learn how to use
> bugzilla
>


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