Bug 427939 - On very short screens, Apply, Help, Defaults etc buttons on many pages become inaccessible
Summary: On very short screens, Apply, Help, Defaults etc buttons on many pages become...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395476
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.20.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: HI normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-10-18 19:52 UTC by Frank Steinmetzger
Modified: 2021-08-29 17:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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KCM at 800×600 (55.79 KB, image/png)
2020-10-18 19:52 UTC, Frank Steinmetzger
Details
Kscreen KCM at 1280×720 (78.43 KB, image/png)
2020-10-18 19:53 UTC, Frank Steinmetzger
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Description Frank Steinmetzger 2020-10-18 19:52:10 UTC
Created attachment 132537 [details]
KCM at 800×600

I was checking up on my old netbook which has a 1024×600 screen and attached an external screen to it. When trying to configure the screen, I discovered that I could not operate the KCM within System Settings with the mouse, because the Apply button was off the screen and unreachable with scrollbars.

Admittedly, there are not many devices out there these days which have such a low pixel count, but that doesn’t change the problematic widget layout that cannot cope well with low vertical heights. But if there is any GUI that needs this capability, it would be the screen setup.

In another case, I was setting my big 2560×1440 screen to quarter resolution (1280×720) to try out the performance of a demanding 3D game on Intel graphics. There, the Apply button was just about visible and no scrollbars shown.

There might be users who need very big fonts because of bad eyesight, and those big letters would also push the widgets apart.

EXPECTED RESULT
The Apply button should be reachable with the mouse by way of the scrollbar.

My setup:
Current standard Arch packages
Plasma 5.20.0
KDE Frameworks 5.75.0
Qt 5.15.1
The screenshots are a few days old, from Plasma 5.19, Frameworks 5.74.0.
Comment 1 Frank Steinmetzger 2020-10-18 19:53:18 UTC
Created attachment 132538 [details]
Kscreen KCM at 1280×720

The Apply button is just about visible.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-10-21 03:41:23 UTC
Gross.

This generic problem will hopefully be fixed in Plasma 5.21 when we move the generic buttons to the top of the window, which will universally fix this issue for all pages.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-08-29 17:45:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 395476 ***