Re: OpenOffice dialogs are enormous...
On Sunday 30 May 2004 20:58, Silvan wrote:
> I used to run OO.o from a tarball because I had already downloaded it, and
> it worked. I couldn't see spending the hours necessary to get the Debian
> packages after I switched to a real distro.
>
> I've just recently gotten a bigger pipe, and have done a clean net install
> of Sarge. I got the latest OO.o in the process. All the dialogs and menus
> are huge.
>
> The font sizes look probably larger than they're supposed to be by default,
> but they're not overly large. They appear to be about 14 pt. The real
> trouble is with widget layout and spacing and such. Huge buttons, huge
> dialogs. Everything is spread out more than it would need to be in order
> to contain the needed information. Some of the dialogs are difficult to
> use because their frames are fixed, but their contents are larger than what
> will fit inside, so bits at the right side get cut off.
>
> Buttons like this
>
> +------------------------+ +------------------------+
> + + + +
> + OK + + CANCEL +
> + + + +
> +------------------------+ +------------------------+
>
> I'm thinking this looks like some kind of DPI issue where OO.o has a
> different idea what my DPI is compared to everything else. (Everything
> else being mostly KDE apps, but also the GIMP.)
>
> I can't figure out a way to try to configure my way around this from inside
> OO.o, and I'm not sure what else to look at either.
>
> I've done the same install on a different box with the same results too.
> Maybe it's supposed to be that way, but I can't imagine why anyone would
> make things this unwieldy on purpose. It might be at home on a 1280x1024
> screen, if the contents of certain dialogs weren't getting cut short.
>
> Any suggestions? Maybe a dotfile I can tweak or something?
Not a KDE issue but...
Try Tools/Options - Scale and Icon Size size
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