[Gambas-user] Best desktop manager to run Gambas

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 15 mai 2007, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> Which one is the best desktop manager to run Gambas IDE and Gambas
> applications: Gnome or KDE?
> I've seen that my Gambas applications, developed using Qt/KDE widgets
> under Suse 10.2 and KDE 3.5.6, don't look very well on Ubuntu with Gnome
> 2.18. The aspect ratio of the forms, widgets and labels is incorrect and
>  there are some other little problems (like a "kbuildsycoca running"
> every time I launch a program via Gambas IDE).

Gambas aims to be as neutral as possible towards any desktop. But as you have 
noticed, there are problems, and usally they are not Gambas faults.

Users should report any of these little problems, as I don't see them on my 
Mandriva system, this distribution being careful with these sort of 
configuration problems.

Apparently, Ubuntu didn't fixed the QT library configuration problem. Maybe 
you should send them a bug report.

> I would also like to know if there is an "ultimate" solution for the
> aspect ratio problem.
> I've noticed that Gambas doesn't check the resolution of the screen when
> it starts rendering a form but checks the font width of the system. This
> is strange and comes with the aspect ratio issues that I've posted before.

Gambas does not use screen resolution to scale its form, because its aim is 
not having the same absolute form size between screen resolution, but 
following what the user needs to see: Users having difficulties to see and/or 
read usually use a higher font size. So Gambas uses the absolute desktop 
default font height and not the screen resolution to scale its forms. It uses 
that as sort of zoom factor.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini