[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55498] Welcome dialogs mis-layed-out on HiDPI Windows 10

[Andrew Janke]

URL:
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                 Summary: Welcome dialogs mis-layed-out on HiDPI Windows 10
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: apjanke
            Submitted on: Thu 17 Jan 2019 06:31:28 AM UTC
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.1
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

I installed Octave 4.4.1 on HiDPI Windows 10 using the binary Windows
installers from https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html. (Nice
Windows packaging, by the way! It was an easy install and a nice-looking
application.)

In the initial dialog boxes presented on the first run, the third one
("Enjoy!") was layed out wrong: some panels and text areas were too small for
the text they contained, so text got truncated and I couldn't read some of it
(it was just cut off; not an issue with my eyesight or font size).

And then the initial Octave window was sized really small relative to the text
size.

This is probably just a HiDPI issue where something's not scaling hi-res
pixels right.

This was on a vmWare VM running Windows 10 with updates current as of Jan 15
2019, on macOS 10.13.6 on a Late 2015 5K iMac; VM configured with "Use full
resolution for Retina display" enabled.

Totally minor cosmetic issue. But still, it's a first impression for new users
coming to Octave; these things can matter.

Screenshots attached.



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