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Asger-P
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UI Scaling request

Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:25 am
Hi
I have just bought a XP PEN Inventor 16 and started to use Krite, a fantastic piece of software,
thank you very much for all the great work.

I do have a little problem though, and that is the size of the text in Krita on my new tablet.
I am 62 years old and my eyes are getting "lazy", so I do like letters to be a bit bigger then
I used to, but I cant find anywhere in the setting where I can adjust the font size of the
program menus and dialogs.

On my pc main screen 32" 1560x1440 I use 120DPI (125% font size), to compensate for my
"lazy" eyes, but that is not possible on the XP PEN tablet, as it specifically demand 96 DPI (100%)
in order to calibrate the pen and the point on screen.
The tablet resolution is 1920x1080 and in 100% this amount to 140 pixels per inch whereas my
main screen in 125% amount to 74 pixels per inch which means that buttons and text looks
just about half the size on my tablet compared to my main screen.

The solution I suggest (as a c++ windows programmer) is to make a setting that say something like:
Screen DPI and values can be:
Same as Screen (default as it is now)
Minimum 125%
Minimum 150%
Minimum 175%
Minimum 200%
etc. (4K an 8K tablets are coming soon).

When you on windows handle the WM_DPICHANGED message, you can just scale to the minimum
DPI, that is set by the user, in stead of the actual value in the message.

Hope you will consider this.
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Asger
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Re: UI Scaling request

Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:47 am
Please use the nightly stable build: it has an option to set the user interface font and font size. See

https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... age_Build/
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... cOS_Build/
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... ows_Build/

For Linux, macOS and Windows, respectively.

You can also change the size of the toolbox icons.

Finally, you can already set the scaling factor using the QT_SCALE_FACTOR environment variable.
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Re: UI Scaling request

Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:58 pm
Thanks for the answer Boudewijn

boudewijn wrote:Please use the nightly stable build: it has an option to set the user interface font and font size. See

https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krit ... ows_Build/

I'll try that, but I'm not that fond of alpha releases. ;)



boudewijn wrote:Finally, you can already set the scaling factor using the QT_SCALE_FACTOR environment variable.


How and where do I do that on windows 10 64 bit ?

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Re: UI Scaling request

Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:53 pm
The stable nightly builds are not alpha releases, not like the unstable nightly builds :-). And you can set environment variables by editing the .lnk files or using the windows config applet for that.


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