#1112357 cqrlog: CQRlog is unusable on GNOME 48 on Trixie

Package:
cqrlog
Source:
cqrlog
Description:
Advanced logging program for hamradio operators
Submitter:
Nate Bargmann
Date:
2025-08-30 02:53:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1112357#5
Date:
2025-08-29 01:37:57 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

   Preparing for Trixie on my main desktop, I installed the package on a
   laptop running Trixie with GNOME 48.  The result is not usable with
   entry fields all squashed to the left of the window.  While the
   window opened quite small initially, resizing did not change the
   widget arrangement.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

   Tried changing themes by setting the legacy theme to Adwaita in
   Tweaks.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   No change.  The application will simply be unusable.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

   An application that I can use.

   This is almost certainly related to bug 967295, but it also means
   that legacy apps might no longer work on later versions of GNOME.  If
   nothing else, it seems that GTK-2 applications should gracefully fall
   back to the Raleigh theme built into GTK-2, unless GNOME is actively
   interfering.  If there is a setting to keep GNOME from trying to
   theme a specific application, I would appreciate being informed of
   its existence.
#1112357#10
Date:
2025-08-29 18:29:56 UTC
From:
To:
My apologies as I have to backtrack on this.  After more testing I found
that most of the problem was due to my not logging and then back into
the desktop.  Secondly, I had the scaling set to 125% and that
apparently threw cqrlog's UI off.  Setting the scaling back to 100% and
doing the logout/login dance again allowed the UI to be normal.

I tested it using dark mode and Adwaita-dark for legacy apps in Tweaks
and it seems to be handled better than on Bookworm as the stipple in the
logbook alternates between light and dark backgrounds with white text.
On Trixie the background is all dark with white text.

This report can probably be closed as noise...

73, Nate
#1112357#15
Date:
2025-08-29 19:56:06 UTC
From:
To:
Re: Nate Bargmann

Yeah, scaling is not supported by a lot older apps.

No worries, thanks for reporting back!

73,
Christoph DF7CB
#1112357#20
Date:
2025-08-30 02:30:07 UTC
From:
To:
Just to close this completely.  I did find a resolution for the stipple
as in the preferences I found the setting for "green paper" which when
unchecked allows Adwaita-dark to theme a consistent dark background for
each line with white text.  There are some other colors that are hard to
read, but they may be hard coded.  I'll ask about it on the CQRlog
forum.

73, Nate