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I dont know if this isnt bug, or simply KDE developers forgot about small and 4:3 screens.

The idea is to polish KDE both for 4:3 screens and small resolutions.

4:3 - now very often i open some application and it opens with 16:9 proportions and even after i click maximize window to change it proportions to 4:3, still application elements are fit to 16:9 proportions. This applications are for example: Shaman, KSudoku and much more.

Small resolution - there are many problems with small resolutions on KDE. My monitor supports something like 1920x1600 but i use 1024x68 to get 100hz vrefresh, and because of small resolution i get many problems for example with message windows.



This message window is maximized to fullscreen, and still it is completly unreadable. When it shows normly in window i can read only first and last words of it.

might be you should change your display DPI?

it is standard 96dpi.

I have this problem too, but I think it is probably a bug rather than a wishlist item.

If this are bugs, there are to many of them, so i simply wish for more love for KDE handling of small resolution/4:3 screens

Just try filing one bug.

Maybe that could be fixed in the main library so that instead of being truncated with "..." it would instead become two lines.

This is a bigger problem that people think. Embedded devices are booming, and people will be wanting to run KDE software on their phones or whatnot. I don't ever expect to see a full plasma desktop on a phone, but I can easily imagine KSudoko.

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Terrible space usage for me, GNOME is much better IMO on not-large screens. Somebody imagine this on 320x240 mobile phone

Brandybuck wrote:This is a bigger problem that people think. Embedded devices are booming, and people will be wanting to run KDE software on their phones or whatnot. I don't ever expect to see a full plasma desktop on a phone, but I can easily imagine KSudoko.

Well, I could see Plasma on a mobile device - what, with all its SVG-based goodness and highly flexible panels... Maybe not a full-blown PC-like desktop, but a plasma desktop non-the-less.

When posting stuff like this, it's important to remember that everything gets smaller on smaller screens - mainly fonts, and with them the likes of buttons and text-boxes. However, the OP's image is definitely something that needs fixing, and there is still a lot of wasted space in e.g. some kcontrol modules (I'm thinking the Appearance/Style module could be far more scale-able then it is now, as well as others). KDE's much better at small resolution now then compared with 4.0 - but there's still stuff to do.