• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
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    What is your monitor size?

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    You see the app’s font size is on par with the text size of your KDE panel. If gnome increased it, it would look totally out of place.

    Also centering content is a valid design choice. Many websites do that on large/wide monitors. It improves readability. An example might be the design of pi-hole’s UI.

    If readability is your issue on gnome on wide screen monitors you should also have issue on reading the time and date on the KDE panel as well.

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      14 hours ago

      2560x1080 which is 21:9 full hd. Most programs don’t really handle 21:9 displays, but many GTK apps are particularly bad at it

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        5 hours ago

        Wonder why not set a maximum width and have the de respect it eg you maximize and the window grows to max height but not max width

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      13 hours ago

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      I have no issue with the text size, I have an issue with enormous empty space around the text. It’s fine if it’s not perfect on a 21:9 display, but this wouldn’t look good even on a 16:9 display.

      I’m also fine with the text not taking up the entire width, I aggre that it’s less readable. But I think the window (not the text, the window) could utilise the width better.

      I say that the messages could be a little more spread out (i.e. my massages could be a little to the right while other’s a little to the left) and just like the left sidepanel appears and disappears when the window is too thin, more sidebars could appear to the right when the window is very wide.

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        10 hours ago

        These are all design choices though, not technical limitations of the gdk. I’m no expert in it though. Is it possible it’s missing the tools that make building those other design features easy?

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          10 hours ago

          AFAIK one of these are technical limitations, it’s just design choices. But in my experience, the design choices made following the gnome design guidelines tend to make apps with tiny faces