[Bug 182829] New: Height of main window cannot be reduced enough to fit on low res. displays

[Patrick Nagel]

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           Summary: Height of main window cannot be reduced enough to fit on
                    low res. displays
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.10.0-rc1
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: [hidden email]
        ReportedBy: [hidden email]


Version:           0.10.0-rc1 (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

With the advent of netbooks with a typical resolution of 1024x600 and other
similar devices, GUI applications should be adjusted to fit on low resolution
(i.e. small) screens.

Currently digiKam is unusable on my netbook, because the main window is cut of
at the bottom, and there is no way of resizing it.

Please reduce the hard-coded 'minimum height' to at most 450 pixels (currently
something like 680 pixels on my screen, which makes digiKam too big even on
1024x768 screens, if you have a "fat" bottom or top panel).
IMO it's better for (netbook) users to have to scroll but being able to use an
application than to not being able to use an application at all.

Related bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182755 - this one is
about the configure dialogue, which has the same issue.


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--- Comment #1 from Gilles Caulier <caulier gilles gmail com>  2009-02-02 07:41:52 ---
Give us some screenshot where minimum size is hardcoded. We use KDE components
and it can be relevent of non digiKam code...

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--- Comment #2 from Gilles Caulier <caulier gilles gmail com>  2009-02-02 08:00:10 ---
Also, this can be relevant of translation strings size which can break layout.
Please check in English.

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--- Comment #3 from Patrick <mail patrick-nagel net>  2009-02-02 08:19:21 ---
Created an attachment (id=30855)
 --> (http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=30855)
digiKam resized to minimum size possible

This is on another box where I can't install 0.10.0-rc1, but I think it's the
same with beta8 as seen on this screenshot.

Just try it for yourself - the window cannot be resized to a smaller size,
which is not usable on small displays. I can send another screenshot from my
netbook, where the bottom of the window is cut off, if you want, but I don't
think that would be of much interest.

Probably the minimum size of the main window isn't hard-coded (I didn't check
the code), but maybe the minimum size settings of the widgets in it add up to
this overall (too big) minimum size? In any case, there must be a way to fix
this - all other KDE programs I tested so far are usable on my netbook.

As for translated strings: as you can see on the screenshot, I use English
(just as on my netbook).


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--- Comment #4 from Gilles Caulier <caulier gilles gmail com>  2009-02-02 12:03:38 ---
SVN commit 920064 by cgilles:

digiKam from trunk : use QScrollArea to host fuzzy search view to reduce main
window size
CCBUG: 182829


 M  +18 -12    fuzzysearchview.cpp  
 M  +4 -4      fuzzysearchview.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=920064


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--- Comment #5 from Gilles Caulier <caulier gilles gmail com>  2009-02-02 12:04:50 ---
Patrick,

With commit #920064, it's better. I think more improvement require marble
widget fixes (i'm not 100% sure...)

Please test and report if it's enough.

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--- Comment #6 from Patrick <mail patrick-nagel net>  2009-02-02 17:18:00 ---
Created an attachment (id=30873)
 --> (http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=30873)
digiKam resized to minimum size after commit #920064

Yes, that's much better :) Thanks for the quick fix!


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--- Comment #7 from Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf behrenhoff gmx net>  2009-02-09 12:29:14 ---
Are you sure this is resolved?

I'm using Kubuntu with Kubuntu's KDE 4.2 packages and installed digiKam from
SVN, build 922266. I still cannot resize digikam to less than 600 pixels in
height. 600px is the height of my netbook's screen. Because I have the task bar
in the bottom, I need digikam to support a height of let's say 580 pixels or
less.

What did you do to achive what is shown in screenshot after commit #920064?


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--- Comment #8 from Andi Clemens <andi clemens gmx net>  2009-02-09 12:35:18 ---
Created an attachment (id=31143)
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minsize

Yes we have solved it, at least you can scale down the window to 560px height.
What Qt/KDE style are you using? I'm using standard Oxygen on my system.

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--- Comment #9 from Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf behrenhoff gmx net>  2009-02-09 13:00:08 ---
Created an attachment (id=31144)
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This is how it looks (600px)

I'm just using standard ubuntu's theme, I think it is oxygen (never cared about
themes). I can resize the width, but not the height. As you can see, in
maximized state, digikam is below the task bar.

If I move the whole window downwards, then I can resize the height to more than
600px but not to less.

Maybe did I do something wrong when building digikam? Or do I need to delete
some digikam settings files?


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--- Comment #10 from Patrick <mail patrick-nagel net>  2009-02-09 13:35:21 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Maybe did I do something wrong when building digikam? Or do I need to delete
> some digikam settings files?

I think your DPI setting is wrong. That's probably also the reason why your
fonts and decorations are so huge.

I don't know how to set the DPI nowadays (now that xorg.conf is obsolete) - I'm
still setting it with the "DisplaySize     x y" (x and y are screen
width/height in mm) setting in the Monitor section of xorg.conf.

But if it was possible to shrink digiKam even further, it would be even better.


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--- Comment #11 from Andi Clemens <andi clemens gmx net>  2009-02-09 13:42:00 ---
You can set your DPI settings with kdm (edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc):

ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br -novtswitch -quiet -dpi 75

I have a Macbook Pro (1440x900px) and fonts are always too big, the same for my
old Acer Aspire 1362LC. DPI 90 seems to be the standard, but for me it always
looks crappy.
So I set my DPI to 75 and all is fine.


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--- Comment #12 from Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf behrenhoff gmx net>  2009-02-09 15:09:41 ---
Thank you, setting the DPI helped.

My display is 11 inch, 13cm height x 22.2cm width at 1024x600. Maybe I
misunderstood something but if I calculate the resolution, it is 117x117dpi!

Now if I force it to be 96dpi, I can view the full digikam.

KDE->System Settings->Erscheinungsbild (Appearance?)->Fonts->Force DPI for
Fonts

The default value seems to be "deactivated" but it needs to be set to 96dpi.


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