Admittedly this is a chat app, so there’s little to do. But still, it could stretch out a little bit more, maybe open the conversation info panel on the right
You see the app’s font size is on par with the text size of your KDE panel. If gnome increased it, it would look totally out of place.
Also centering content is a valid design choice. Many websites do that on large/wide monitors. It improves readability. An example might be the design of pi-hole’s UI.
If readability is your issue on gnome on wide screen monitors you should also have issue on reading the time and date on the KDE panel as well.
I have no issue with the text size, I have an issue with enormous empty space around the text. It’s fine if it’s not perfect on a 21:9 display, but this wouldn’t look good even on a 16:9 display.
I’m also fine with the text not taking up the entire width, I aggre that it’s less readable. But I think the window (not the text, the window) could utilise the width better.
I say that the messages could be a little more spread out (i.e. my massages could be a little to the right while other’s a little to the left) and just like the left sidepanel appears and disappears when the window is too thin, more sidebars could appear to the right when the window is very wide.
These are all design choices though, not technical limitations of the gdk. I’m no expert in it though. Is it possible it’s missing the tools that make building those other design features easy?
AFAIK one of these are technical limitations, it’s just design choices. But in my experience, the design choices made following the gnome design guidelines tend to make apps with tiny faces
Fair - point still stands though - the application only has a single breakpoint defined at 600sp from a cursory glance, the lack of an ultra-wide specific layout is just because it hasn’t been implemented rather than a shortfall of GTK (though I’m not sure you would even want to make the message view wider, as it would impair readability)
Sounds like a skills issue/design decision. Like the devs could do otherwise, they just didn’t. There’s nothing in GTK preventing this from working properly.
No, I want it to utilize the space a little bit more, this wouldn’t look good even on a 16:9 display. Which is a shame because when windowed it looks really good.
Proper GTK4 adwaita apps don’t do that. They scale really well on mobiles to desktops.
Counterargument:
Admittedly this is a chat app, so there’s little to do. But still, it could stretch out a little bit more, maybe open the conversation info panel on the right
What is your monitor size?
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You see the app’s font size is on par with the text size of your KDE panel. If gnome increased it, it would look totally out of place.
Also centering content is a valid design choice. Many websites do that on large/wide monitors. It improves readability. An example might be the design of pi-hole’s UI.
If readability is your issue on gnome on wide screen monitors you should also have issue on reading the time and date on the KDE panel as well.
2560x1080 which is 21:9 full hd. Most programs don’t really handle 21:9 displays, but many GTK apps are particularly bad at it
Wonder why not set a maximum width and have the de respect it eg you maximize and the window grows to max height but not max width
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I have no issue with the text size, I have an issue with enormous empty space around the text. It’s fine if it’s not perfect on a 21:9 display, but this wouldn’t look good even on a 16:9 display.
I’m also fine with the text not taking up the entire width, I aggre that it’s less readable. But I think the window (not the text, the window) could utilise the width better.
I say that the messages could be a little more spread out (i.e. my massages could be a little to the right while other’s a little to the left) and just like the left sidepanel appears and disappears when the window is too thin, more sidebars could appear to the right when the window is very wide.
These are all design choices though, not technical limitations of the gdk. I’m no expert in it though. Is it possible it’s missing the tools that make building those other design features easy?
AFAIK one of these are technical limitations, it’s just design choices. But in my experience, the design choices made following the gnome design guidelines tend to make apps with tiny faces
That looks like it’s just wrapping a WebView, is it not?
It looks like the CSS is just capping the container class width at 1440px, which has nothing to do with GTK
It’s Fractal, a matrix client, not a webview: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal
Fair - point still stands though - the application only has a single breakpoint defined at 600sp from a cursory glance, the lack of an ultra-wide specific layout is just because it hasn’t been implemented rather than a shortfall of GTK (though I’m not sure you would even want to make the message view wider, as it would impair readability)
Sounds like a skills issue/design decision. Like the devs could do otherwise, they just didn’t. There’s nothing in GTK preventing this from working properly.
Do you want the text to span unlimited pixels?
That would be ideal, IMO.
No, I want it to utilize the space a little bit more, this wouldn’t look good even on a 16:9 display. Which is a shame because when windowed it looks really good.
Hm yeah. Most configurable GNOME application.
And that’s an issue. People also use non-GTK4 apps.
Even Gtk3 doesn’t have that issue when properly coded.