Text is tiny on HiDPI screens
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gedit |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| gedit (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am on Artful and have switched to GNOME as GNOME is the default desktop now and Unity shows some instabilities.
I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2nd gen.) notebook with 14-inch QHD (2560x1440) display, so I am well over the good old 72-dpi CRT resolution.
With some effort I have at least got a somewhat useful scaling of the GUI elements (esp. text size), mainly by getting into Unity7, getting into the Display Settings there, removing my ~1.5 scaling factor, returning to GNOME, installing the advanced settings manager (gnome-tweak-tool or so) and setting a scaling factor of ~2). Large text in accessibilty does not work for me as it makes the text huge.
Unfortunately gedit does not bother on these efforts, it seems to be hard-coded to 72 dpi and so the text is tiny, unusable not only for people with vision problems. As this is the default text editor, which is often also called by web browsers to display text files, this needs to get fixed.
Please take this into account ASAP, ideally on 17.10 at the latest. Please consider backporting upstream fixes for achieving this goal.
| Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Critical |
| no longer affects: | gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #1 |
| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| importance: | Unknown → High |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| importance: | High → Unknown |
| status: | New → Unknown |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: artful |
| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Critical → High |
| Changed in gedit: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in gedit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https:/