Latest gSender and Edge UI bugs

gSender šŸ› Bug
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First off I have a fresh installation of Kubuntu for my LongMill PC. It has an Intel Skylake cpu so Iā€™m using the Intel-64 bit deb files. My monitor resolution is 1366x768.

Here is gSender 1.5.7

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Itā€™s usable but you can see how the Rapid button is cut of in the jogging section.

Here is 1.6.0 Edge 5

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The jogging section is better but now the whole bottom is cut off without any scroll bar.

I can only get the AppImages to run if I use the --appimage-extract option. I get this error which doesnā€™t seem to redirect to a fileā€¦
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Itā€™s entirely possible that I just donā€™t know what Iā€™m doing, I donā€™t play in sandboxes, but that file isnā€™t even present. Any way after extracting the image and changing the owner of chrome-sandbox to root and setting file permissions 4755 I was able to run the edge 1.6.0 Edge 5 and the UI is the same.

EDIT: I seems to me if only the visualizer was resizable there would be all kinds of room. I thought maybe light weight mode would help but it just turns the visualizer black and still wastes 3/4ā€™s of the screen. I know you canā€™t please everyone but Iā€™d like the visualizer in a separate tab or resizable. Anything that doesnā€™t waste most of my screen for something I only use during job setup. Sorry if this comes off as a rantā€¦

EDIT2: I think I should clarify my use of the visualizer because the whole UI is basically job setup. I open a file and look at the visualizer, yup its the correct file, size and origin look okay, done with visualizer until the next file load. So most of the screen for a 5 second look with each file. Maybe others have more interesting use cases IDK.

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Ok, so I only installed Kubuntu because I was lazy. I took the time to install Gentoo and not only does the latest Edge AppImage run it has a scroll bar at 1366x768. The visualizer looks messed up but clicking the feather fixed that. I didnā€™t notice it before I took the screenshot because I was focused on the scroll bar and right side layout.

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So, yeah Ubuntu and friends are crap! Who would have thought that Gentoo with a kernel configured by yours truly, no desktop environment, only a window manager and compositor (i3 + picom) would run better than Kubuntu. I give all the credit to Gentoo and itā€™s documentation.

If it helps I donā€™t have a discrete graphics card on that PC just using the Intel HD 530 on the CPU.

I imagine all the choice that Linux gives makes it hard to get something that works on most distributions. I think Window is crap but at least itā€™s just one pile!