Steam UI Finally Has A Scaling Mode For HiDPI Monitors

[RealNC]

Dynamic, or at least configurable should be preferred over hardcoded 2X.

Valve has limited resources. They're only a multi-billion dollar company, you know. Maybe they should start a crowdfunding campaign.

[holunder]

@andrebrait: HiDPI Scaling in KDE Plasma works very well, you just have to set a custom font DPI and DON’T fiddle with the official UI scaling in monitor settings. Additionally, you should set the icons a resolution higher in system settings.

https://www.frumble.de/blog/2017/03/01/manjaro-linux-und-kde-plasma-5-das-frumble-kompendium-2017/#HiDP

[pal666]

You don't even need HiDPI to scale the window.

obviously, human eye has angular resolution, and angles are not measured in inches, but it looks like most ui devs skipped classes at school

[pal666]

Because browsers don't display decades old desktop applications

obviously i'm not asking to remaster old apps, i'm talking about current release of gnome for example.

but some HTML pages, which have *some* standart by which it is possible to calculate how stuff should look like when upscaled

i mentioned steam client, which is browser displaying some html pages

GNOME hasn't got fractional scaling working so far

that's exactly what i'm complaining about

[pal666]

Steam isn't just a wrapped browser. It's mostly a VGUI mess, that also happens to have a browser inside it. The biggest issue though is VGUI, that shit has existed since Half-Life.

steam client (thing from which you launch steam games) is just a browser. it has css files and i manually increased font sizes in them. and my issue is this browser can't change scale without manual editing of css files

[andrebrait]

@andrebrait: HiDPI Scaling in KDE Plasma works very well, you just have to set a custom font DPI and DON’T fiddle with the official UI scaling in monitor settings. Additionally, you should set the icons a resolution higher in system settings.
https://www.frumble.de/blog/2017/03/...ium-2017/#HiDP

Scaling is not just using a different font size. That can be done with GNOME and pretty much any DE out there. Getting stuff to work manually isn't exactly the same as scaling working as it should. The fact that you advised me to stay away from the UI scaling in the Monitor settings pretty much confirms that (but I must say it was working kind of ok the last time I tried Neon).

[andrebrait]

obviously i'm not asking to remaster old apps, i'm talking about current release of gnome for example.
i mentioned steam client, which is browser displaying some html pages

But Steam is one of those apps. And the only part of it that's a browser is the store and community tabs. All the rest isn't, AFAIK, which is the part that needs scaling too.

If you weren't talking about Steam, I'm sorry, I thought you were.

[cj.wijtmans]

on my windows 10 laptop with hgh dpi 4k screen i have not noticed anything on this update.

[scirocco]

They had fixed it, steam was finally readable on my 4k tv for about a week, but todays update broke the scaling again, so steam is unusable.

[sl1pkn07]

why GDK_SCALE and not GDK_DPI_SCALE? 2x is horrible in my NON-HiDPI 4K display