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Bug 792051 - Text and icon size too small on UHD monitors
Text and icon size too small on UHD monitors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
gimp-2-8
Other Windows
: Normal enhancement
: 2.10
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-29 18:19 UTC by Philip Bazin
Modified: 2018-01-05 00:30 UTC
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Description Philip Bazin 2017-12-29 18:19:21 UTC 
I use a large 4K screen. When using GIMP the icons and text are very small and very difficult to see. Being able to adjust the UI Text and Icons independently from the image work area would be a great benefit.
Comment 1 Jehan 2018-01-04 15:39:45 UTC 
Hello,

Yes GIMP 2.8 doesn't have any support for HiDPI. GIMP 2.10 will have some initial support and things should hopefully be a lot better.

You are welcome to test our development version 2.9.8 for Windows 64-bit and tell us if that is better: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/

In this version, the icon size should be better by default (detection of your screen density) and if that is not enough, in "Edit > Preferences > Icon Themes", you should be able to select yourself the icon sizes.

As for text size, I am unsure. From what I understood this should also be adjusted automatically, but I don't think we do anything about this (that should be a GTK+ thing). We would also welcome the feedback on the development version of GIMP.

In any case, this won't be changed in GIMP 2.8. We are just too close to GIMP 2.10 release and anyway we don't add features in the 2.8 series. So we focus on improving the future version.
Comment 2 Alexandre Prokoudine 2018-01-05 00:15:16 UTC 
Won't fix it for 2.8, hence closing. Fix for 2.9.x (and upcoming 2.10) is available.
Comment 3 Michael Natterer 2018-01-05 00:25:44 UTC 
So it's fixed :)
Comment 4 Jehan 2018-01-05 00:30:18 UTC 
(In reply to Alexandre Prokoudine from comment #2)
> Won't fix it for 2.8, hence closing. Fix for 2.9.x (and upcoming 2.10) is
> available.

Actually I didn't close on purpose because I was interested about the text size issue, especially since I think this is not the first time I read about this.
From my small tests and from what I know, even GTK+2 should already have good-enough automatic text size when detecting high density screens. But maybe that's not right.