Review Request 125773: Fix units.gridSize and theme.mSize for some fonts

David Rosca nowrep at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 15:27:43 UTC 2015 


> On Nov. 2, 2015, 12:05 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > I don't like this change, as it introduces a magic constant for a value that we completely control our own. (Well, to the degree that we say "a gridUnit is roughly the height of a line of text". The 1.6 constant looks weird here, and I'm against adding font specific hacks in, especially since at that point in the code, we don't even know what the font is.
> > 
> > This is not a structural solution, so -1.
> 
> David Rosca wrote:
>     I understand, but what is a structural solution?
>     The font metric is clearly wrong for Noto, Oxygen (and certainly some other fonts) and this change is backwards compatible with current code.
>     
>     And this is not a font specific hack, this just scales the actual height of M to the expected gridUnit value because gridUnit never was a height of M character (it is like 1.6 * height of M = thus the magic number).
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     Well, problems arise as soon as you change the font -- the computation is not based on the default font, but on the currently selected font. The funny thing here is that the Oxygen font is actually the wrong one, as that includes more height than the rendered character, but also some spacing above.
>     
>     What is the exact issue you see? I'm still not quite clear on that.
>     
>     The bug you're referring to should be fixed by not computing the font manually, but use units.iconSizes.* instead. (I haven't tried, but that's the semantically correct solution.)
> 
> David Rosca wrote:
>     > Well, problems arise as soon as you change the font
>     
>     In the current implementation, yes. Because QFontMetrics::boundingRect(QString = "M").height() returns more than just height of M character, and this extra size is different for various fonts - it will return different value for 2 fonts even when the font size (eg. actual height of M character) is the same in both.
>     
>     > The funny thing here is that the Oxygen font is actually the wrong one, as that includes more height than the rendered character, but also some spacing above.
>     
>     Yes, but that spacing is there for every font, but different and that's exactly the whole problem. For DejaVu Sans font it returns value that plays well with what we use as gridUnit (roughly M height * 1.6), but for Noto and Oxygen it returns just too much (~ * 2). Only QFontMetrics::boundingRect(QChar = 'M').height() returns the actual M height without any spacing.
>     
>     > What is the exact issue you see? I'm still not quite clear on that.
>     
>     My issue is that units.gridUnit and theme.mSize is too big and that leads to too big spacing relative to font size. You can see it on screenshots, it shows the minimum size of system tray popup (it is calculated as x multiple of units.gridUnit). You can see on the first screenshot that it is just too big, and the same story is for every other plasma widget.
>     
>     Maybe I should have posted the whole screen, not just a snip. It looks much worse when you see the whole screen and can compare the size to the rest of screen (1920x1080).
>     
>     > The bug you're referring to should be fixed by not computing the font manually, but use units.iconSizes.* instead.
>     
>     Yes, that would fix the linked bug - size of systemtray icons. But it won't fix the general issue mentioned above.
> 
> Marco Martin wrote:
>     also -1.
>     the sizing of systray icons should depend in a range between iconsizes, so from iconSizes.small to smallMedium (or medium, or whetever).
>     for the grid unit, adding that ratio to the m height, i get that you are trying to have pretty much the height of a line of text? could QFontMetrics::lineSpacing() work?
> 
> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     From me it's a +1, the patch is technically correct. The icons sizes are just a byproduct of this patch, this is about the difference that
>     
>     boundingRect("M") and
>     boundingRect('M') make.
>     
>     Using the QString overload is wrong because it is not just the M height, but also the spacing above and that spacing is random, making things scale randomly with different fonts. Using the ::lineSpacing wouldn't really make much difference I think because it would still need some kind of multiplier to get back to the original value that boundingRect("M") returns up till now, otherwise Plasma will get really tiny for users with Oxygen font. Using boundingRect('M'), the QL1Char overload, it counds *only* the M size, no other spacing included. This would result in much much more consistent scaling with different fonts. Curretnly the difference can be quite big.
>     
>     So, +1, this patch is correct from my point of view.

Perhaps could you give this a second thought?

If I wasn't myself clear then please read Martin's comment, he explained it very well. I'll just add that lineSpacing won't work as it has the same issue with random spacing.
For me personally, I cannot use Noto without this patch as everything has big spacing (+ annoying big systray icons as side effect).


- David


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On Oct. 29, 2015, 6:16 p.m., David Rosca wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 29, 2015, 6:16 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Bugs: 343349
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343349
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> For some fonts, QFontMetrics::boundingRect(QString) returns too high rect which makes the gridSize too big.
> It now returns correctly the actual height of M character. For backwards compatibility, the value is multiplied with 1.6.
> 
> This affects eg. Noto Sans font that is now default for Plasma 5.5.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   src/declarativeimports/core/units.h fa2256e 
>   src/declarativeimports/core/units.cpp 4e2adae 
>   src/plasma/theme.cpp c49ad4c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125773/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> When switching to Noto Sans font, I noticed that icons in system tray grow to big size so it switched to 1 column in vertical panel. Basically everything in Plasma grow too much (even though the font is visually the same or even smaller than DejaVu Sans that I was using before - same font size 9 was used) - too big spacing in task manager, too big popups (application menu, system tray popups), etc ...
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> This fixes the issue. This may also fix BUG 343349
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> File Attachments
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> systray + popup before
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/10/29/d409b391-e35e-451f-bb5b-aa42e7eb2bf3__before.png
> after
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/10/29/445009bc-a4a8-4998-8e82-996a0a4e33fb__after.png
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> Thanks,
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> David Rosca
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