I am running portableapps on my 17 inch laptop which comes with 4K display, Windows 11 provides the "Suggested DPI zoom" of 250% which I accepted to make things look big enough to be usable.
The portableapps seems to react decently to the DPI zoom settings (although it could be a bit bigger to be fair. However the install new app part is very small and doesn't seem to follow the Windows DPI scaling
Is there any way to fix this and/or can the app be thought with the above setup in mind?
Thank you so much.
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Do you mean the app store, as in when you click Apps and then Get More Apps and then make a selection? Could you provide a screenshot please?
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The app store/updater is setup to handle 100%, 125%, 175%, 200%, 225%, 250%, 300% natively. It'll get weird if set to a custom DPI in between those.
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The GUI (try icon menu) works ok e.g. big enough although it would be nice to have a custom zoom level regardless
For the rest (e.g. install new app) see this:
https://ctrl.vi/i/vQCCwW844
That is the correct size and is zoomed 250% larger than what is standard. NSIS itself handles the zooming via Windows. My custom code allows the columns to be appropriately sized for the zoom. You may want to try 300%.
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Windows and the portable apps menu looks totally ok to me, the issue is the apps list, way too small in my opinion.
I needn't a bigger zoom, I'm just saying if you compare at the text in the webpage the portableapp text looks too small so IMHO this should be increased from the current size.
Beside this (and off topic with this thread) it would be amazing to have a search field when installing new apps regardless if this is by name or category.
Regards
That's the standard size of text defined within Windows and then used by NSIS and not something we can easily alter. If you open up an Explorer window, click View, then Options, then Change Folder and Search Options, it'll bring up a standard Windows options Window. You'll note that the font and font size match the Portable App Directory.
Most websites will show text bigger than Windows itself will by default.
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Thanks I actually had to do two things:
- Increase the zoo level to 300%
- reduce the text size from 125 to 112
Now things look "human" again.
Thanks for the help