https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422567
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Keywords| |usability
CC| |n...@kde.org
Summary|Ability to configure font |Make everything in KRunner
|and icon size in Krunner. |a little bit bigger to
| |increase the speed of
| |interaction
See Also| |https://bugs.kde.org/show_b
| |ug.cgi?id=356446
--- Comment #6 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
Yeah, you're running into the problem that increasing the font size doesn't
increase icon sizes. Past a certain font size, the text is huge and the icons
are tiny. This looks quite bad.
In general, the correct way to make everything on the screen bigger--fonts and
icons alike--is to use the screen scaling feature in the KScreen KCM. For
example setting it to 125% scale will make everything on the screen 25% bigger.
In face, In Plasma 5.20 (or maybe 5.19, I can't remember), the Fonts KCM will
gently nudge you in the direction of the KScreen KCM if you try to set a
humongous font.
However there is one remaining issue with using the screen scaling feature in
the KScreen KCM: on X11, this does not yet use Qt Scaling, so the icons *still*
are too small! This is Bug 356446. To work around that, you have to set the
PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING=1 environment variable in the environment when
plasmashell starts up, or use Wayland, where it works properly. I have been
fixing bugs with that mode and have submitted a merge request to turn it on by
default, which will finally fix the issue once it lands:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/139
I am tempted to mark this as a duplicate of Bug 356446, because fixing that and
having users use the screen scaling feature should address the visual
impairment use case, for which the correct solution is to make *everything* on
the screen bigger, not just KRunner. I don't really see the use case for making
KRunner itself huge but keeping everything else in the system small.
However I will not because there seem to be several non-visually-impaired
people who want KRunner to be just a little bit bigger in general to increase
the speed of interaction I'm sympathetic, but I think if we want to accommodate
those people, we should just increase the default sizes and not make this
configurable. Down that road lies madness. :)
However even for the people who want everything to be a little bit bigger, I
would encourage them to try using a fractional scale factor to make
*everything* a bit bigger as I strongly suspect that the whole UI being too
small is the true problem. See also https://phabricator.kde.org/T13158.
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