about scroll off center

[ponderous]

Linux elementary OS Pinta v2.0

Credits in Help/About scroll are off center and chopped on the right side. Expanding window width auto-centers the status bar but the actual scroll doesn't move with it and remains right-truncated at its original width, remaining on the left side of the expanded window. The "Pinta" title inside the scroll window remains centered in the viewable scroll.

Screen dump attached.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Thanks for the report!
I haven't reproduced the chopped-off text yet, testing on macOS and Ubuntu 20.04, so I'll have to try setting up a VM for elementary. I can reproduce the issue with the poor resizing behaviour, though

Do you have anything notable in your display settings? (e.g. high-DPI, fractional scaling, etc)

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

I also tried with a fresh elementary OS 6.1 VM, installed Pinta via flatpak, and the dialog text was centered as expected

[ponderous (ponderous)]

Hello. Fascinating; I have nothing available to compare.

My hardware is basically an antique, a refurbished-purchase Dell Latitude D830 laptop upgraded to solid state boot drive and eOS. Everything is vanilla to keep it stable–and cheap–and improvements beyond function wouldn't push it ahead of a cheap Chromebook in a footrace. I was very impressed by the SSD/OS nitro hit when OEM Windows was like Jacob Marley dragging his chains to scare Ebenezer. As a Mac fan, I'm jealous that this "enterprise" machine was so nicely spec'd, approachable, repairable, and in hindsight, everything I could want but coffee-proof; a friendly workhorse as long as I'm not expecting it to pull more than one furrow:

Dual-Core Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz
NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 135M] (rev a1)
4.0 GB memory
471.5 GB storage (SATA SSD)
elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera
Built on Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Linux 4.15.0-163-generic
GTK 3.22.30

About graphics specifically, I have only one option for the built-in screen:
LoDPI (1680x1050 (16:10) 60Hz
NVIDIA binary driver version 340.108

The only "custom" thing installed is a Broadcom ethernet driver because the eOS installer default didn't work, solved with a swap.

Video driver updates frequently from eOS AppCentre, but it's never a newer version so I assume my hardware profile is checked but never utilizes the latest tweaks.

There's a small, temporary, and intermittent visual artifact when loading new video tabs in Firefox, that I haven't noticed in other circumstances and have chosen to ignore; identifying the source is over my head and a few pixels freaking briefly has proven unobtrusive. I never use software screen res switches, like toggling full screen, because the OEM graphics scale badly pixelated and laggy.

I suspect graphics is a dead end or I'd see a problem in other scenarios, but I mention this for due diligence. Regarding that, I also have a fsck built into my grub, something I thought I'd never verbalize, but it solved frequent boot problems my file system couldn't seem to understand without a hand up.

The about:scroll thing is odd and unique in my experience.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Thanks for the details - I'm going to try setting up a elementary 5.1 VM (rather than 6.1) to see if that has an effect.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

I can reproduce it with elementary os 5.1

[ponderous (ponderous)]

I just attempted but failed to demo eOS 6.1, something wrong with the flash boot, but I can't upgrade for the moment. Didn't even know Odin existed but the need to wipe and reinstall all applications for major a release is frustrating and time consuming.

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

Fixed by https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/commit/3adb4cdbb9fac113a908abdd8b0234a26bd9ca56

[ponderous (ponderous)]

Bravissimo! I look forward to seeing it filter down through the AppCentre.