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Re: [Downstream AUR issue] FreeCAD UI Messed up

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adrianinsaval wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 2:15 pm Do you have a high dpi display? Could be related to that. Could also be the theme from your DE, try setting a different theme with qt5ct or using KDE
No. I don't have a High DPI Display. It's definitely not that. I mean the weekly builds AppImage works perfect.
adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 4:47 pm
ifohancroft wrote:ping
is this the same issue? does this solution work for you? https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 80#p554068
Thanks! I'll try that and report back but I am almost sure it's like Kunda1 said something to do with cmake's flags.
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Re: [Downstream AUR issue] FreeCAD UI Messed up

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Kunda1 wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:39 pm I think there are some cmake flags that need to be passed. I remember seeing something recently by @wmayer but need to search the forum for it
I went through the last 30 pages of his posts and couldn't find it. Perhaps it's even further back, but man, would it help if we had the ability to tag users in the forum :D
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Re: [Downstream AUR issue] FreeCAD UI Messed up

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ifohancroft wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:11 pm I went through the last 30 pages of his posts and couldn't find it. Perhaps it's even further back, but man, would it help if we had the ability to tag users in the forum :D
It's 2022 and we're still waiting on that @mention functionality in the forum :facepalm:

edit: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/6206
should be in phpbb 4.0
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Kunda1 wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:03 pm It's 2022 and we're still waiting on that @mention functionality in the forum :facepalm:

edit: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/6206
should be in phpbb 4.0
I know, right?! I recently saw that it's available as an extension so at least there's that. It's good to see it's becoming a main feature though.

Another thing I can't believe is still not possible (there are not even extension for it) are the so called pretty urls.
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Yea, it definitely doesn't offer inspiration and requires long-term perseverance...But thankfully i like FreeCAD too much to be deterred :D
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BTW, there are now Snap packages that are 'edge' versions of both FreeCAD master and Realthunder's LinkDaily
See Snap wiki page

edit: they are compiled nightly and the download is a delta diff (like appimage) and happens in the background.
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adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 4:47 pm
ifohancroft wrote:ping
is this the same issue? does this solution work for you? https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 80#p554068
Sorry. I forgot to report back. This doesn't solve the issue.
Kunda1 wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:41 pm Yea, it definitely doesn't offer inspiration and requires long-term perseverance...But thankfully i like FreeCAD too much to be deterred :D
Oh, yeah. Definitely. Also, phpBB is generally awesome, despite some shortcomings.
Kunda1 wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:43 pm BTW, there are now Snap packages that are 'edge' versions of both FreeCAD master and Realthunder's LinkDaily
See Snap wiki page

edit: they are compiled nightly and the download is a delta diff (like appimage) and happens in the background.
https://github.com/ppd/freecad-ppd
Thank you! I am not a fan of Snaps, Flatpacks, etc, but that's good to know that it's an option and obviously, the more the better.
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Re: [Downstream AUR issue] FreeCAD UI Messed up

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I really doubt there's a cmake flag related to icon display, I do not remember anything of the sort before.
Does using a stylesheet have any effect? The fact that the appimage works is not proof that it's not theme related, on my end (archlinux with KDE) the Appimage uses a very different theme than the one my system uses (although it keeps the color scheme) because my theme is not included in the Appimage, instead it uses one that is built-in from qt (fusion). GTK based DEs like mate and xfce usually set the qt theme using an extension that tries to mimic the GTK2 theme but it has always been buggy. Try installing qt5ct and see what theme is set, if it's set to gtk2 that could be the culprit, try using fusion or install the breeze theme.
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adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:38 pm I really doubt there's a cmake flag related to icon display, I do not remember anything of the sort before.
Does using a stylesheet have any effect? The fact that the appimage works is not proof that it's not theme related, on my end (archlinux with KDE) the Appimage uses a very different theme than the one my system uses (although it keeps the color scheme) because my theme is not included in the Appimage, instead it uses one that is built-in from qt (fusion). GTK based DEs like mate and xfce usually set the qt theme using an extension that tries to mimic the GTK2 theme but it has always been buggy. Try installing qt5ct and see what theme is set, if it's set to gtk2 that could be the culprit, try using fusion or install the breeze theme.
I'll play with qt5ct later today, but I forgot to mention that yes. I tried changing the stylesheet, not just the desktop environment's dpi setting and FreeCAD's toolbar size setting. It didn't help.
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Re: [Downstream AUR issue] FreeCAD UI Messed up

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The AUR update on for freecad-git still fails as of an hour ago.

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