I use same resoution from my laptop: no problem with English strings.

Sound like a problem with you local translations of strings which break layout.

Gilles Caulier

Bartek, which interface language are you using, Polish?

The fact that netbooks with a typical resolution of 1024x600 get more and more popular should IMO be considered when designing dialogue windows nowadays.

Please make them resizeable, so that it's possible to use digikam at all (even with tedious scrolling).

I'll open a separate bug for this request that applies not only to the configuration dialogue, but to the Digikam main window, which has a minimum height set that is too high for 1024x600.

Yes, the language was Polish. I will try with English locale. 

The size is limited by the kipi-plugins section I guess, you can't shrink the content of this part down.
If I remove some kipi-plugins from my system, the config box gets smaller, too.

Andi Clemens

(In reply to comment #5)
> The size is limited by the kipi-plugins section I guess, you can't shrink the
> content of this part down.
> If I remove some kipi-plugins from my system, the config box gets smaller, too.

Good analysis :)

Do you have an idea what could be the cause in the main window? See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182829

At least in the ImageEditor we have minimum heights for the curves widget, the histogram etc. In the MainWindow I can only think of Marble right now.

Andi Clemens

Created attachment 30856 [details]
minimum height of config dialog

For the config dialog pages, i have a fix to use QScrollArea everywhere.

Gilles

SVN commit 920046 by cgilles:

digiKam from trunk: use QScrollArea everywhere to decrease setup dialog size
BUG: 182755


 M  +15 -9     setupalbumview.cpp  
 M  +2 -2      setupalbumview.h  
 M  +15 -9     setupcamera.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupcamera.h  
 M  +13 -7     setupcategory.cpp  
 M  +2 -2      setupcategory.h  
 M  +12 -6     setupcollections.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupcollections.h  
 M  +10 -4     setupdcraw.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupdcraw.h  
 M  +11 -5     setupeditor.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupeditor.h  
 M  +14 -7     setupicc.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupicc.h  
 M  +12 -6     setupidentity.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupidentity.h  
 M  +16 -10    setupiofiles.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupiofiles.h  
 M  +10 -4     setuplighttable.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setuplighttable.h  
 M  +11 -5     setupmetadata.cpp  
 M  +2 -2      setupmetadata.h  
 M  +12 -6     setupmime.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupmime.h  
 M  +13 -7     setupmisc.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupmisc.h  
 M  +11 -5     setupplugins.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupplugins.h  
 M  +19 -13    setupslideshow.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupslideshow.h  
 M  +12 -6     setuptooltip.cpp  
 M  +2 -2      setuptooltip.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=920046

SVN commit 920047 by cgilles:

use QScrollArea in shwofoto setup dialog
CCBUG: 182755


 M  +13 -7     setupeditor.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setupeditor.h  
 M  +13 -7     setuptooltip.cpp  
 M  +3 -3      setuptooltip.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=920047

SVN commit 920052 by cgilles:

libkipi from trunk: plugin settings widget: use QScrollArea instead QAbstractScrollArea
CCBUG: 182755


 M  +10 -7     pluginloader.cpp  
 M  +2 -2      pluginloader.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=920052

Created attachment 30861 [details]
weird scaling

Gilles,

I had applied such a patch before on my system, but I removed the patch again because I faced the problem that you have right now, too:

The kipiplugins list will scale in a strange way, the font and everything else will get smaller. See the screenshot.

Andi Clemens

The font is not scaling, I meant the spacing will get scaled and elements are overlapped...

It's a problem in libkipi. already fixed in trunk...

Gilles