HiDPI issues with KDE applications

Christoph Cullmann christoph at cullmann.io
Sat Sep 28 17:25:57 BST 2019


On 2019-09-28 18:23, Michael Reeves wrote:
> While were on this topic https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-75039
> 
> It seems qt has a few bugs related to this. Make sure multi monitor
> setups are tested as well.

I have no multi-monitor different DPI setup available.

But if somebody has, for sure, testing there would be appreciated.

I can only tell, that without the below change, already on one screen
it looks horrible :=)

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 11:05 AM Christoph Cullmann
> <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just checked again the HIDPI support of Kate/KWrite on Windows and
>> it
>> "sucked".
>> 
>> It seems we never properly did setup the stuff to auto-scale, e.g.
>> the
>> 
>> QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling, true);
>> 
>> call was missing, we only had the
>> 
>> QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps, true);
>> 
>> part that we sprinkled in most of KDE's things in the past.
>> 
>> I now rectified that for Kate/KWrite, shall we do this for all our
>> applications?
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>> 
>> --
>> Ignorance is bliss...
>> https://cullmann.io | https://kate-editor.org

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