Bug 24013

Summary:	arduino GUI unusable on HiDpi screens and old, please update
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Yann Cantin <yann.cantin>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, marja11, pkg-bugs
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ReleaseNotes
Whiteboard:	MGA7TOO
Source RPM:	arduino-1.6.5-5.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Christian Lohmaier 2018-12-15 18:05:41 CET

Description of problem:
Arduino-IDE's UI in the version shipped with Mageia currently (1.6.5) doesn't have any scaling functionality, so on high-dpi screens the actual editor is scaled 100%, while the rest of your desktop might be scaled 200% or more, resulting in tiny/unusable text.

Later versions of the IDE (starting with 1.6.8 - released in March 2016) provided a setting in preferences to adjust the scaling. (see release notes in URL)

Please update to current 1.8.x version. Since 1.8.6 it should be able to auto-detect a proper value ~reliably.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-12-16 16:52:13 CET

Assigning to the registered maintainer, CC'ing all packagers collectively, because I don't think I've seen Yann Cantin since 2016.

Assignee: bugsquad => yann.cantin
CC: (none) => marja11, pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2019-01-14 16:37:04 CET

Yes the menu text are really tiny, and nonaliased, so ugly. Some words we have to guess.  Anybody know when 1.9.0 is out? It have been in beta about a year... Could be good to have in mga7.

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2020-01-14 22:20:46 CET

Latest upstream stable is 1.8.10

I suggest to update.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO
Summary: arduino GUI unusable on HiDpi screens => arduino GUI unusable on HiDpi screens and old, please update