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gpt4all 2.7.4 only uses half wide of screen. fix this.

Open Macalanias opened this issue 10 months ago • 12 comments

gpt4all 2.7.4 only uses half wide off screen. fix this.

Macalanias avatar Apr 27 '24 09:04 Macalanias

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Macalanias avatar Apr 27 '24 10:04 Macalanias

@Macalanias I personally like how it doesn't expand to the full width of the screen. Word processors do the same thing by default. It's much harder and slower to read very long lines of text, then find the beginning of the next line at the other side of the screen.

Phil209 avatar Apr 27 '24 15:04 Phil209

@Phil209 for me it´s annoying, because i generate a lot of text and don´t want to scroll so often to read more. as in many cases, an option switch would be the best solution for everyone. don´t know if anyone had this word-like-look on wishlist, for me it´s a bug

Macalanias avatar Apr 27 '24 15:04 Macalanias

I also prefer the old look, where the full width of the window was utilized. I initially thought it was a bug related to the new pin/hide sidebar option, but looking at the release notes, it appears to be an approved change that was requested "Limit the width of text in the chat #2118"

https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2118

It would be nice to have this as an optional feature instead (seems to be hard-coded to a width of 1280).

rweg23 avatar Apr 28 '24 07:04 rweg23

changes say it is a "main.qml" where the 1280 is written down. i searched through all folders in hope i could change it back by myself, but this file doesn´t even exist.

hopefully, when they don´t want to change it back, they can answer us here how to change it by ourself.

Macalanias avatar Apr 28 '24 12:04 Macalanias

I couldn't find it either. I've just raised the issue on the Discord server, to see if there's any way around it.

rweg23 avatar Apr 29 '24 12:04 rweg23

@rweg23 in case you get an answer on discord, would be nice if you copy paste it here :)

Macalanias avatar Apr 29 '24 14:04 Macalanias

Ah, this is what that was about. On Discord, there was a response from manyoso, but not a confirmation/commitment. So I guess I'll add the label to mark this as a feature request for now, but no guarantees.

cosmic-snow avatar Apr 29 '24 23:04 cosmic-snow

Thank-you, making the narrower width optional would be the best solution. For me it just looks and feels better using the full width, especially if the "large" font setting is used.

(there's a similar request from "Tailkinker" in the Linux Discord channel too)

rweg23 avatar Apr 30 '24 07:04 rweg23

Can you still reproduce in v3.0? Otherwise we can close this.

ThiloteE avatar Jul 02 '24 20:07 ThiloteE

yes this problem still exists. 50% screen width is used

Macalanias avatar Jul 03 '24 07:07 Macalanias

aaa

Macalanias avatar Jul 03 '24 07:07 Macalanias