The qjackctl display (the black glassy window in the middle of the UI)
does not resize with the font size. The default setting of 12pt shows up cluttered and overlapped on my window (135x126 dpi). Resetting it to 10pt does work. It seems funny to offer a font selection dialog (specifically for this display), when it cannot be properly handled.

Thanks,

Wouter Koolen-Wijkstra

Dear Maintainer,

This bug is especially obvious on high resolution displays. Also, the buttons
do not resize vertically, only horizontally, which leads to a cramped UI with
bigger font sizes.

I attached a patch to fix these problems. The patch also removes the manual
indentation of the left-aligned status labels in the main status display and
rather increases the overall margin of the status display.

The interface is now fully scalable and looks good when disabling the "shiny
background" bitmap option. I would recommend to drop this bitmap and its toggle
option to reduce code and settings complexity for a feature that does not
(IMHO) increase end user value.

Best regards,
Lukas F. Hartmann (mntmn)

2014-11-30 16:07 GMT+01:00 Lukas F. Hartmann <lukas@mnt.mn>:

Hello Lukas,

Dear Maintainer,

Thank you for the patch, I am forwarding it upstream.
Maybe Rui also have some idea how to improve "shiny background" to be
scalable too.

best regards

mira

well, it wasn't ever supposed to scale as to grow in screen space that is.

from the cradle, it was designed to stayy as is, as *low profile* as
much as it's possible.

tbh. once you get those settings "au point", or "al dente", whatever
semantics better suits you, the least you get qjackctl pesking your
screen estate the better :)

byee

Hi Rui,

I understand what you mean in terms that you want a compact interface, which is still no problem with the patch. The problem becomes apparent when you use a higher DPI display (sometimes called "retina display" or "hi-dpi") where assumptions about reasonable pixel sizes do not apply anymore. Here it becomes important that UIs are scalable nicely and play together with the user defined DPI and theme settings. I guess this would also help visually impaired users.

Cheers,
Lukas

tag 293454 - upstream + wontfix
notforwarded 293454
thanks

The fowarded address is no longer valid. Tickets on the current
Sourceforge tracker date from 2012.

According to the upstream maintainer's comments on this bug, the problem
won't be fixed. SO I have tagged the bug with this status for now.

If it is still a problem, a new ticket should probably be created upstream.

Ross