Subsurface is too tall for my display

Rick Walsh rickmwalsh at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 15:34:19 PDT 2015


On 2 Sep 2015 1:29 am, "Tomaz Canabrava" <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
>
> I'll fix that today.
>
Thanks Tomaz.

>
> Em ter, 1 de set de 2015 11:30, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> escreveu:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:04:45AM +1000, Rick Walsh wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The main window is now too tall for my display.  I'm running Fedora 22
KDE
>> > on a laptop with a 1366x768 screen, and if I maximize the window the
title
>> > bar is chopped off at the top.  If I don't maximize the window, the
lowest
>> > part of the window is hidden below the screen, and I can't shrink the
>> > window vertically.
>> >
>> > I used git bisect to track down the commit to:
>> > commit 5db6d415986ffacf199f75e10d277934d3ff5a7b
>> > Author: Tomaz Canabrava <tomaz.canabrava at intel.com>
>> > Date:   Mon Aug 31 20:17:06 2015 -0300
>> >
>> >    Widget to show other dive sites at the same coordinates
>>
>> Thanks for bisecting this. git bisect is one of the most useful tools,
>> ever :-)

I knew git was powerful, but having so many commands makes it appear
daunting and complicated at first.  Now I keep being impressed by how
simply it can achieve things.

>>
>> This is our eternal struggle so I'm glad that you are testing on a
>> 768-tall screen. I tend to do this every once in a while but I'm happy to
>> say that I no longer own an abomination with such a small screen :-)
>>
>> That said, this is definitely one of our design goals, so we need to look
>> at the widgets and make sure we allow them to be small enough for this to
>> work.
>>
>> One quick question. Does setting a smaller font change things enough to
>> make it fit? I kinda doubt it but I figured I'd ask :-)
>>

I tried reducing the font to 6pt (from 9pt).  It achieved little except for
threatening me with a headache.

Rick
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