Bug 342804

Summary:	Some UI elements are displayed too small on HDPI screens
Product:	[Applications] yakuake	Reporter:	Martin Zbořil <kdebugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	arichardson.kde, claudius.ellsel, kde, public, spiderx
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.9.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Martin Zbořil 2015-01-13 17:26:13 UTC

tabs and buttons are tiny on QHD resolution, text in tabs is bigger than tabs themselves.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a 15 inch display with 3860*2100 resolution
2. increase dpi to be able to read text without magnifying glasses
3. want to return the display, start crying, start reporting bugs for several days.. eventually return the display hoping that it gets resolved after developers get the displays themselves.

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2015-01-13 17:28:51 UTC

I'm planning to implement high-DPI support, but it'll take a while.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2015-01-14 15:39:51 UTC

Martin, can you please stop whining?

> reporting bugs for several days

Your first report: 2015-01-13 17:21
Your last report: 2015-01-13 18:26

> return the display hoping that it gets resolved after developers get the displays themselves

Right. Donate your system to the KDE project, so that developers can actually test. Not everyone has the money to buy new high-end hardware.

Comment 3 Martin Zbořil 2015-01-14 15:54:39 UTC

NO! without feedback, how do you know stuff's broken? I am going to continue reporting, although it is true that this account is a bit new, but I was reporting bugs like at least 9 years ago.

Comment 4 Tim Ruffing 2015-08-18 03:41:12 UTC

The icons etc. seem to scale well with the new high DPI settings (http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/high_dpi_again) but the windows is wider than my screen.

I guess yakuake gets the size of the screen in physical pixels and then uses some fraction of it. The covered fraction of the screen should be independent of the high DPI settings.  

(The actual konsole part does not scale but that does not work either in konsole on my system.)

Comment 5 Claudius Ellsel 2020-09-01 21:43:49 UTC

*** Bug 356781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Claudius Ellsel 2020-09-01 21:46:41 UTC

(In reply to Tim Ruffing from comment #4)
> I guess yakuake gets the size of the screen in physical pixels and then uses
> some fraction of it. The covered fraction of the screen should be
> independent of the high DPI settings.  
> 
> (The actual konsole part does not scale but that does not work either in
> konsole on my system.)

That might be a different bug (might already be fixed). Please open a new bug report (ideally search for existing ones first) if it still happens for you.