Request re icons in 2.4.0 (redux)

[Christopher Menzel]

On Oct 21, 2023, at 4:13 PM, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 08:50:50AM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> Estimable LyX developers,
>> 
>> I am wondering about a relatively minor interface issue that seems to affect the Linux version of 2.4.0~beta5 but not the MacOS version, as illustrated in the attached graphics, when the "Extra" icon set is placed vertically on the left of the LyX window. In the Linux version, the "Apply recent text properties" icon takes up far more horizontal space than the other icons and, as a consequence, makes the entire icon set take up about 50% more horizontal space than on the MacOS version, where the "Apply recent text properties" icon takes up no more space than the other icons. (The MacOS icons are also noticeably sharper, but that could have to do with the fact that I'm running Linux in a Parallels VM.) I'm wondering if perhaps there is some simple fix here or if it is due to an inherent difference between the two platforms that can't be overridden. FTR, I have compiled 2.4.0~beta5 on both Intel and Apple Silicon machines, which are running up-to-date versions of Kubuntu (23.04) and Kali (2023.3), respectively, and both exhibit the phenomenon in question.
> 
> Dear Chris,
> 
> if you happen to use standard toolbar still in horizontal setting, the icon causing your problems was moved back there, so that might fix this issue.
> 
> Pavel

Ah, interesting, thanks for that! I’m still using the Linux version I compiled back on 31 August so I guess I’ll need to grab the latest source to see this. However, I just had another look and the toolbar looks somewhat better than it did for some reason, perhaps because I upgraded my home office monitor to one that is running at the Mac’s 5k native resolution instead of scaled 4k. As you can see in the attached screenshots, the icon strip on the Linux version is still chonkier than the one on the MacOS version, but it’s definitely more svelte than it was. I do still wonder why the icons are so much sharper on the MacOS version...

-chris


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