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Bug 256482 - Tiny tool bar icons and wrong sized properties window (high dpi)
Summary: Tiny tool bar icons and wrong sized properties window (high dpi)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: JDK Problems (show other bugs)
Version: 8.1
Hardware: PC Windows 10 x64
: P3 normal with 2 votes (vote)
Assignee: Antonin Nebuzelsky
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Reported: 2015-11-10 06:26 UTC by Cruiser
Modified: 2016-08-09 14:43 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2015-11-10 18:57 UTC, Cruiser 		Details
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Description Cruiser 2015-11-10 06:26:25 UTC 
Even if the high dpi option is set to true, the icons is not scaled or resized. They are too tiny to work with (4K resolution on laptop). And when I configure the bigger font-sites (eg. 32), the properties window with the categories is messed up.

Hope you will prioritize the UI for high resolution displays.

The competitor is taking this serious:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/07/intellij-idea-15-eap-comes-with-true-hidpi-support-for-windows-and-linux/

I think it's time for NetBeans to do this too.
Comment 1 Cruiser 2015-11-10 18:57:22 UTC 
Created attachment 157261 [details]
Netbeans High DPI
Comment 2 Tomas Stupka 2016-06-24 14:06:31 UTC 
handled in jdk - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055212
Comment 3 Cruiser 2016-06-28 10:18:32 UTC 
(In reply to Tomas Stupka from comment #2)
> handled in jdk - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055212

Cool, but this info is for the Netbeans developers, right? I can't just install a new JRE and get it to work?
Comment 4 andres.escallon 2016-08-09 14:43:13 UTC 
I have the same issue under Linux with a 3200x1800 screen.  It is unusable even with GTK+3.  Eclipse work well. After 8 years of using Netbeans, It would be a pity having to switch to Eclipse.
All the information provided indicates that everybody thinks that the problem will be solved by the evolution of platforms like JDK 9 not by addressing the issue within Netbeans.  
High resolution screens are here to stay.