Hi David,

i can reproduce the issue with the growing keyboard by cycling through
the different keyboards
(terminal, numbers etc). Though maybe this is another bug.

Regards,
Jake

On 11/16/10, David Kozub <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been seeing some strange issues with SHR-U lately:
>
> * on-screen keyboard size is growing, eventually some keys no longer fit
> on screen
>
> * text labels in GTK apps keep shrinking to the point of being unreadable
>
> * terminal font in vala-terminal keeps shrinking
>
> For example see [1].
>
> The issue is exacerbated by frequent rotation of screen, e.g. install
> omnewrotate and rotate the phone 20x.
>
> The issues all seem connected. So I tried comparing the output of xdpyinfo
> after startup and after several rotations. And there are differences,
> e.g.:
>
> <   dimensions:    480x640 pixels (43x58 millimeters)
> <   resolution:    284x280 dots per inch
> ---
>>   dimensions:    480x640 pixels (4x428 millimeters)
>>   resolution:    3048x38 dots per inch
>
> More generally: It seems that with each pair of rotations (portrait ->
> landscape, landscape -> portrait) the phys. width decreases and the height
> increases.
>
> IMHO this explains why the fonts change, while bitmaps stay correct. The
> apps are told nonsensical phys. dimensions (and so get nonsesical dpi).
>
> But what causes this?
>
> I'm not able to reproduce the issue deterministically without rotating the
> screen, but I have seen the growing keyboard issue even without rotations.
> Maybe that one is different from the this?
>
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> [1] http://linux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~zub/SHR/scaling-fun.png
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