Bug 365845

Summary:	QPushButtons and other default UI elements are too big
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Jim Jones <rauchwolke>
Component:	QStyle	Assignee:	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <hugo.pereira.da.costa>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Jim Jones 2016-07-19 07:11:19 UTC

I wrote some simple apps in qt4 that worked normally under kde4. After i switched to the kde framework 5 the default ui elements of qt4/5 apps (QPushButton, QLineEdit,...) are displayed way too big, therefore the size of the widgets increased and the app doesn't fit on the screen anymore. While using kde 4 it was possible to fit two apps side by side on one screen. Now the interface takes up nearly 80% of the screen for only one widget. Is there a way to scale down the size of the default ui elements?

The DPI settings under kde4 were equal.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jim Jones 2016-07-19 07:16:54 UTC

Selecting the "MS Windows 9x" style leads to smaller buttons but they are still too big

Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2016-07-19 10:36:29 UTC

Not a bug in KWin - KWin is not responsible for anything DPI related or widget style related.

I do not know which component might be related to it, thus moving to kde/general in the hope that someone else knows where to assign it to.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2016-07-21 03:42:54 UTC

> Is there a way to scale down the size of the default ui elements?

Use a different widget style, such as QtCurve or Skulpture.

For Plasma 5, KDE developers increased the default size to follow the trend of High-DPI and finger-friendly interfaces.