GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 795507
HiDPI Behaviour
Last modified: 2018-04-28 21:18:14 UTC
I have a HiDPI screen so I apply a 1.3 scaling factor to fonts in Gnome Tweak Tools. I noticied that this changes the default font inside the cells, but not the default height/width of the cell, which seems strange to me. In my opinion, only the fonts of the menus and dialogs should be changed, but not the fonts of the cells and of the headers, since these can be changed with the zoom. What do you think?
As I understand it, the scaling is meant to be a system-wide zoom. I.e., fonts should scale, cells should scale, etc. (But Gnumeric should still thing of everything as being at 100% -- the spreadsheet zoom is independent.) I realize we're not doing any of this. That's going to take someone with the hardware, time, and inclination.
Hi Morten, I disagree with you here regarding the font scaling. The fonts of the menu and dialogs should be scaled, but not the fonts of the document. Look at what do other document-centric application, like evince or LibreOffice. What you say about everything scaling but the application zoom still being at 100% is fractional scaling, whih is the right way to support HiDPI screens, but this is not ready yet, therefore I only scale the fonts for now. Font scaling may also be interesting for people with disabilities, who want to improve text reading without scaling the rest of the UI.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 749566 ***