Bug 165698 - It seems the LO vcl plugin kf6 does not scale correct
Summary: It seems the LO vcl plugin kf6 does not scale correct
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146297
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.1.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-03-12 10:27 UTC by pieter kristensen
Modified: 2025-03-13 05:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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LO scaled to 110%. Ribbon looks messy (196.32 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-03-12 10:31 UTC, pieter kristensen
Details
kf6 vcl working in Ubuntu (170.46 KB, image/png)
2025-03-12 15:11 UTC, pieter kristensen
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Description pieter kristensen 2025-03-12 10:27:45 UTC
Description:
when I change the scaling to any other value the 100% the ribbon looks ugly and chaotic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Scale desktop to any other value but 100%
2. start LO writer
3. looks not well 

Actual Results:
The ribbon looks ugly and messy

Expected Results:
Ribbon looks nice


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Libreoffice:
Version: 25.2.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 520(Build:1)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI: nl-NL
Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.2~rc1-0ubuntu1
Calc: threaded

Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.0-16-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Celeron® J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz
Memory: 7.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 600
Comment 1 pieter kristensen 2025-03-12 10:31:33 UTC
Created attachment 199748 [details]
LO scaled to 110%. Ribbon looks messy

When scaled the ribbon looks ugly.
Just as with the vcl kf5.

I hope very much it is due to the ubuntu build or I must install some package to fix this.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2025-03-12 11:02:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146297 ***
Comment 3 pieter kristensen 2025-03-12 11:26:19 UTC
Apart from the styles box that doesn't scale I have one more remark: the font chooser and font width chooser are completely glued to the tabs and in my opinion there should at least be a little white space between these and the tabs. 
I think they are too pressed together to look pretty now.
Comment 4 pieter kristensen 2025-03-12 15:11:57 UTC
Created attachment 199770 [details]
kf6 vcl working in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu 24.10 I installed the libreoffice-kf6 package. It pulled some dependencies in but that is ok.
After starting LO with 

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf6 soffice

I could see the appearance of LO. 
The ribbon interface looks much prettier than when using Kubuntu 24.10.
I have no clue as to how this works, but perhaps you find in interesting to see.
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2025-03-12 16:43:11 UTC
(In reply to pieter kristensen from comment #4)
> Created attachment 199770 [details]
> kf6 vcl working in Ubuntu
> 
> In Ubuntu 24.10 I installed the libreoffice-kf6 package. It pulled some
> dependencies in but that is ok.
> After starting LO with 
> 
> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf6 soffice
> 
> I could see the appearance of LO. 
> The ribbon interface looks much prettier than when using Kubuntu 24.10.
> I have no clue as to how this works, but perhaps you find in interesting to
> see.

Did you confirm by looking at Help - About that kf6 is used instead of gtk3?
Comment 6 pieter kristensen 2025-03-12 16:52:03 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #5)
> (In reply to pieter kristensen from comment #4)
> > Created attachment 199770 [details]
> > kf6 vcl working in Ubuntu
> > 
> > In Ubuntu 24.10 I installed the libreoffice-kf6 package. It pulled some
> > dependencies in but that is ok.
> > After starting LO with 
> > 
> > SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf6 soffice
> > 
> > I could see the appearance of LO. 
> > The ribbon interface looks much prettier than when using Kubuntu 24.10.
> > I have no clue as to how this works, but perhaps you find in interesting to
> > see.
> 
> Did you confirm by looking at Help - About that kf6 is used instead of gtk3?

Yes I did look and the kf6 vcl is used.
Comment 7 pieter kristensen 2025-03-13 05:15:54 UTC
To elaborate a little on my comment 3...

Imho there really should be more space in the ribbon.
I understand why one would want to keep this space as little as possible - to save vertical screen space. 
But the sacrifice that is brought in this case is too big. The whole program looks unattractive even amateuristic. 
In my opinion it is also very important to look attractive and inviting to (new) users.
Comment 8 pieter kristensen 2025-03-13 05:30:54 UTC
(In reply to pieter kristensen from comment #7)
> To elaborate a little on my comment 3...
> 
> Imho there really should be more space in the ribbon.
> I understand why one would want to keep this space as little as possible -
> to save vertical screen space. 
> But the sacrifice that is brought in this case is too big. The whole program
> looks unattractive even amateuristic. 
> In my opinion it is also very important to look attractive and inviting to
> (new) users.

To me the gtk3 vcl plugin make LO look very well balanced and nice.