Dave requested that I paste this in response: [20:30] <d_ed> can someone reply to an email on fedora-kde titled "Re: Proper way to configure HiDPI font & icon scaling?" for me and say "Dave says https://paste.kde.org/pbmp967au"; [20:30] <d_ed> I got linked, but I don't want to sign up to yet another mailing list (sorry!) On Friday, June 24, 2016 10:06:33 AM EDT Neal Becker wrote: > r.green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The way to configure HiDPI font and icon scaling in KDE has changed at > > least a couple of times: (Note: Some programs, such as Chromium and Java, > > ignore all these settings and have to be configured independently.) > > > > 1. In the original implementation of HiDPI support for KDE, as documented > > in blog posts by KDE developer David Edmundson, it was necessary to set > > both "force font DPI" - for fonts - and "scale display" - for everything > > else. > > > > 2. In January when I first installed Fedora 23, setting both "force font > > DPI" and "scale display" produced unexpected results - I eventually > > figured out that in fact, it worked much better if I just set "scale > > display" to 2. > > > > 3. I've since changed jobs and installed Fedora 23 on a new laptop, and > > with all the updates installed, it's again necessary to set both "force > > font DPI" and "scale display" for everything to be legible without > > squinting. But this it's undesirable to set both, because now with both > > set, most KDE applications have huge fonts. Non-KDE applications like > > Thunderbird look OK though. > > > > Some possible clues as to why this has changed again: > > > > Clue 1: If I leave "force font DPI" unset, it's actually set to 0 in a > > config file, and the fonts are really tiny, suggesting that 0 is being > > interpreted as "very small". > > > > Clue 2: I now get these messages when I run a KDE application from a > > konsole: > > > > Warning: QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO is deprecated. Instead use: > > QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR to enable platform plugin controlled > > per-screen factors. QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS to set per-screen factors. > > QT_SCALE_FACTOR to set the application global scale factor. > > > > So I'm guessing that Qt has been upgraded to a newer version, but KDE > > hasn't been updated to take account of the changes mentioned above. > > > > Since they are environment variables, it looks like I can set them myself > > without needing to wait for KDE to be fixed. So how should I set them? > > where/how are you setting these variables? > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
