https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360478
--- Comment #244 from Uwe Dippel <udip...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to tomashnyk from comment #243) > I definitely would not want > the whole thing to just shrink so everything would be relatively in the same > position but the icons would be tiny. Something's gotta give. I *think* so far I have given a number of, though pertinent, comments to a bug on a bug tracker. As much as I'd like to detail my answer and further the discussion, including your comment, it ought to be taken elsewhere. My involvement is kind of over here, since I was finally (after some years, though) made to understand that my early assumption of a lackadaisical design was confirmed, and that no patch can be written to help this defect, and that the workarounds (my favored one mentioned above) would necessarily be of a lousy nature. I think it's the time to leave this mess behind, the workaround with the scrollbars-if-needed is one of the better ones, while we wait for a new design; for Plasma 6. I would be open for any reasonable discussion, including how to tackle the problem mentioned by you, as I wrote earlier; though not in this by now dated bug report. I will not undertake any efforts on my own, since my experiences in the transition from 3.5 to 4. Then, that is more than 15 years ago, KDE dropped 3.5 with a great idea: offering a single desktop; for all sizes from - let's say - 4" to 24"; same user experience irrespective of (the by then recent) tablet or PC use. Funny enough, and of course(!) the same problem popped up very early on in the design outlines in those days. Any reasonable approach had been manhandled, and so the project has been half-dead since then. I mean, the living half, the PC desktop on a large monitor, is very much alive, thanks to God! so I could use it throughout the last 15 years. Case (bug report) closed for me. It's a simple WON'T FIX / WORKAROUND. > > I agree that DPI should be taken into account, but even that is not enough. > For example, I either use my laptop on its own or docked into external > monitor - in this setting, I still use the laptops display but the screen is > much farther from my head. Thus for this scenariou, I would need to make > everything on the laptop screen bigger. I do not think it reasonable to > expect this would just set itself up automatically. The best we can hope for > would be a system that would easily enable custom-configuration under > specific circumstances. Display configuration allows this already, but just > for display configuration - I would love to make my whole setup change > slightly when I dock my laptop. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
