* Tobias Ellinghaus <h...@gmx.de> [05-15-14 08:34]:
> Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014, 08:09:06 schrieb Patrick Shanahan:
> > * Tobias Ellinghaus <h...@gmx.de> [05-15-14 06:40]:
 [...]
> > > Currently I see two options. The easy one would be you increasing
> > > the DPI setting for your screens.  Unlike setting a bigger font size
> > > that would also scale up GUI elements like buttons.  The alternative
> > > would be to allow overwriting the DPI setting in the darktable
> > > configuration or (more convenient) setting a scaling factor there. 
> > > I kind of prefer the latter since it would help others, too.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts anyone?
> > 
> > Changeing the DPI setting, up or down, affects all apps I use rather
> > than just the osd for image operations/cropping on DarkTable.  It also
> > would take precious real-estate from image display.  A configurable
> > scaling factor in DarkTable, ~/.config/darktable.gtkrc, is *much*
> > preferred.
> 
> Could you please have a quick look at darktable with a higher DPI
> setting, just to confirm that then it looks reasonable?  After all, the
> other texts (button labels, ...) look quite small to me, too.  Or is it
> really JUST the crop&rotate size string?
> 
> Try running
> 
> xrandr --dpi 96
> <start darktable, have a look>
> xrandr --dpi 80

The osd @ 96 dpi looks very reasonable.  The other text size, except the
"show global preferences" menu, is configurable in darktable.gtkrc.  

I have since increased all the fonts by +1.  ALL the fonts became much
smaller when you made the DPI change.

tks,
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