Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-25 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote: > Hello, > > On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I >> tell it >> to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in >> device-independent >> pixels,

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 23 de março de 2017 09:26:26 PDT Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > No, since I don't know who Morten is Morten Sørvig, the engineer who made the big changest o HiDPI support in 5.6. > (Also, to have proper HiDPi on Windows, you need to patch every Qt build > since 5.6 ) -- Thiago

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Hello, On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, at 17:07, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. > > > > The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) > > for the video player

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 00:58:20 PDT Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. > > The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) > for

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
Hello, On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I tell it to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in device-independent pixels, so it actually creates an area 1280x960, which is 4x bigger than the display

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread lukas
Hello, first of all - thanks to all for reading my proposal and your suggestions. I will apply this patch and test if it improves the situation. But as far as I see now, this only changes the positioning of windows. There seem to be other rendering issues in a variety of applications, mostly

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Martin Bříza
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:19:17 +0100, Stefan Derkits wrote: On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: Note that fractional scaling is not supported by Qt. You can do 1x or 2x, but nothing in-between. KDE System Settings allow fractional scaling. So probably should be fixed in System Settin

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I tell > it > to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in device-independent > pixels, so it actually creates an area 1280x960, which is 4x bigger than the > di

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Hello, On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) for the video player but scaled UI for the rest. And Qt is not making that simple for us... It

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em terça-feira, 21 de março de 2017, às 03:51:16 PDT, Stefan Derkits escreveu: > On 2017-03-21 00:34, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote: > > I’m looking also forward to any feedback you have about this proposal. > > I would really love to see the results of such a project. As I wrote you > in a personal mai

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-21 Thread David Edmundson
Looks like a very strong proposal. Can you break the timeline down where you have "fix applications" into much more specific apps with timescale. Possibly even breaking down the different bits of apps. It doesn't matter if we deviate from it when GSOC starts, but it'll show that you have a realist

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-21 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, this proposal makes me happy, not only because I have a 4K Screen, but also because Lukas was a Student in a course at University about Software Engineering in C++/Qt of which I was part of the teaching team. And we need more people in Austria involved into KDE :) On 2017-03-21 00:34, Luka

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-20 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
I'm so sorry that sendgrid changed my plain-text version of the mail, here is the original: Hello fellow developers. I’m a student at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria and would love to participate in the upcoming Google Summer of Code. I have already talked about this proposal on IRC

GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-20 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
Hello fellow developers. I’m a student at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria and would love to participate in the upcoming Google Summer of Code. I have already talked about this proposal on IRC, but now I want to present the full document (continuously updated version at https://u40605