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> But the default UI based on Phosh is problematic. Why do you say that? EDIT: Sorry, I did not read your whole comment. I would offer that Phosh has gotten mo

by kop316 5y ago

> But the default UI based on Phosh is problematic. Why do you say that? EDIT: Sorry, I did not read your whole comment. I would offer that Phosh has gotten more and more mature, and I find it to work extremely well now. > Also, no project mailing list? Most communication with Mobian happens on the Matrix Channel: https://matrix.to/#/#mobian:matrix.org https://matrix.to/#/#mobian:matrix.org

zajio1am 5y ago
> Why do you say that? Well, my main issue with Phosh is that it seems to be designed with assumption that display scaling is set to 2. But Pinephone display is not high-DPI enough to justify that, so many applications are unusable with that (or need application-specific workarounds, like setting zoom to 50% in Firefox and terminal to counteract that). One can set display scaling to more fitting 1, which fixes applications but breaks Phosh, who now has icons too small to be practical on touch screen. And i do not see a reasonable way to confugure icon sizes short of replacing GTK resources for that or perhaps writing custom GTK-CSS style for that.
- zozbot234 5y ago
  That sucks. In modern touch-enabled UI, "display resolution scaling" and "touch element size scaling" should be fully independently adjustable, to the extent practicable. I don't think projects like GTK have that kind of support built in at present. Having responsive UI layouts for small sized screens is great but it just isn't the full story.
- kop316 5y ago
  Interesting. I unfortunately don't know enough about Phosh to comment on it, but I wonder if you bring it up to the Phosh developers, they may have better commentary on design choices?
- khimaros 5y ago
  have you already tried the instructions here? https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks#display-related-tweaks https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks#display-r...

by kop316 5y ago

zajio1am 5y ago

> Why do you say that? Well, my main issue with Phosh is that it seems to be designed with assumption that display scaling is set to 2. But Pinephone display is not high-DPI enough to justify that, so many applications are unusable with that (or need application-specific workarounds, like setting zoom to 50% in Firefox and terminal to counteract that). One can set display scaling to more fitting 1, which fixes applications but breaks Phosh, who now has icons too small to be practical on touch screen. And i do not see a reasonable way to confugure icon sizes short of replacing GTK resources for that or perhaps writing custom GTK-CSS style for that.

zozbot234 5y ago
That sucks. In modern touch-enabled UI, "display resolution scaling" and "touch element size scaling" should be fully independently adjustable, to the extent practicable. I don't think projects like GTK have that kind of support built in at present. Having responsive UI layouts for small sized screens is great but it just isn't the full story.
kop316 5y ago
Interesting. I unfortunately don't know enough about Phosh to comment on it, but I wonder if you bring it up to the Phosh developers, they may have better commentary on design choices?
khimaros 5y ago
have you already tried the instructions here? https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks#display-related-tweaks https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks#display-r...