Question

I have been developing an application with the following layout (greatly simplified):

+----------------------------------+
|         +----------------+       |
| Main    |                | Info  |
|         |  Interactive   |       |
| Actions |                | And   |
|         |     Graph      |       |
| Go      |                | Forms |
|         |  (Resizable)   |       |
| Here    |                |       |
|         +----------------+       |
+----------------------------------+

With a screen resolution of 1440×900. There are some minimum widths set for buttons etc to make them more beautiful (so for example the label inside has some distance from the button borders). Now if I resize the window to about 800×600, it becomes like this:

+----------------------+
|         +----+       |
| Main    |    | Info  |
| Actions |    | And   |
|         |    |       |
| Go      |    | Forms |
| Here    |    |       |
|         +----+       |
+----------------------+

Which is not so beautiful. The reason the middle panel gets so small is that the labels on either sides cannot be shrunk.

The question is, how can I tell gtk to scale everything (e.g. images, fonts etc) inside a window?

If such a functionality doesn’t exist, what choice do I have for making everything inside the window (or at least the font sizes) smaller or bigger, without having to manually change every widget?

Answer 1

Gtk doesn’t allow you to “scale” anything automatically in a window. It would also be a bad idea, as you don’t know how little the window will be (not only because of the screen resolution, but because of the user manually resizing the window).

I’d suggest you to redesign your layout. It’s complicated to suggest a solution without a real screenshot, but maybe the Main Actions could be replaced in the top part of the window.