Submitted by stedevil
Since FDRPG is based on a base layout of 640x480px and then scaled from there to the chosen resolution, we have a lot of small alignment problems here and there. This stems from the bad practice of aligning things according to the "Distance from reference to top left corner of image" principle. 

This leads that that as soon as you have 2 items of different size things start to get out of alignment from each other. Also it makes it a real PIA to modify and add things to the GUI that should work well at all imaginable resolutions. 

A much smarter way to place something (eg a button) in the GUI would be to place it according to "Distance from reference to center of image". This would keep keep images correctly placed relative each other, whatever the resolution.

Posted by stedevil
Related info in Duplicate at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=474016&aid=2938439&group_id=54521

Posted by stedevil
Another related issue that essentially depends on this

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2942957&group_id=54521&atid=474016

Posted by stedevil
Related issue
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2952312&group_id=54521&atid=474016

Posted by ahuillet
Should be part of a wider "UI redesign" project. We shouldn't be scaling things anyway!

Wasn't this addressed by the stuff Catalin did this last summer?

If not, I propose we move this out of "important" as I don't see this as
something to address before our 0.15 release.

It was addressed but hasn't been properly tested on non 4:3 screens and as such
requires some confirmation that it's all OK. :)

I run a 1366x768 screen. UI looks great now after the changes. No noticeable 
distortions.

On 10/28/2011 09:14 AM, Bryan C - Roundup wrote:
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> Bryan C<bryan@xorbit.info>  added the comment:
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> I run a 1366x768 screen. UI looks great now after the changes. No noticeable
> distortions.
>

Yes, but not all UI screens have been converted (shop and dialogs, for
example).

Indeed. I see this being a serious impediment to the next release.

Guess I'll pony up for this one.

Changing all user-interfaces to use the new GUI system written by catalinb
during last GSOC will take a rather long time. I will continue catalinb's work
during the next months, and rework the user interfaces one at a time. So this
release will 'only' contain those already adapted.

As discussed with fluzz this will not be doable for .15 unfortunately.