GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 724959
Icons on "All Applications" displayed far to small on 7" Display
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:35:39 UTC
Screenshot on an 7" (primary) display http://www.pic-upload.de/view-22349470/Bildschirmfoto-von---2014-02-22-18-11-15--.png.html Same installation on an 19" (primary) display http://www.pic-upload.de/view-22349469/Bildschirmfoto-von---2014-02-22-18-07-10--.png.html 7" Display: http://www.pic-upload.de/view-22349522/Bildschirmfoto-von---2014-02-22-18-11-28--.png.html 19" Display: http://www.pic-upload.de/view-22349503/Bildschirmfoto-von---2014-02-22-18-07-31--.png.html Distribution: Arch Linux (lastest updates installed.) # pacman -Qi mutter Name : mutter Version : 3.10.4-1 This version does not appear some (or one) version ago from mutter.
Using the 19" monitor for boot&login, plug-in the 7", plug-off the 19" one, starting gnome-tweak-tool, selecting another scale-factor, switching back to 1.0 solves the problem here: http://www.pic-upload.de/view-22349889/Bildschirmfoto-von---2014-02-22-18-56-31--.png.html
Suspect the problem here is that we doubled padding with the scale factor, and that made the calculations in the overview fall apart. I think using a scale factor of 2 on a 1360x768 display is not right, no matter how small it is, because (not just for this bug), GNOME is simply not going to work well on a 680x384 display. We probably should require some number of pixels of vertical resolution in addition to hi-dpi - Either 1080 or 1200 probably. Can you file a bug against gnome-settings-daemon to that effect if one doesn't already exist? That being said, we also should investigate this bug, and try to do better about the ratio of padding to icons when there is limited space - it doesn't even look particularly great on my 2560x1440 display.
Created attachment 271006 [details] Appearance at 2560x1440 / scale-factor=2
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