Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2014, 09:21:03 schrieb Patrick Shanahan: > * Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> [05-15-14 09:14]: > > * 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. > > I currently must start darktable as: > xrandr --dpi 90;darktable& sleep 10; xrandr --dpi 80 > > or the font displayed for the configuration panel/menu and the > on-screen-display for cropping is so tiny it is unreadable. > > Increasing the DPI setting system wide is undesirable as it causes all > graphical apps to display much larger fonts. > > Is the change that causes this going to be reverted or some other > adjustment provided to control font display in the configuration menus and > the OSD for crop/rotate?
As of now you can overwrite the system's DPI setting in the config file (~/.config/darktable/darktablerc) with the key screen_dpi_overwrite. Setting this to anything > 0.0 will set the DPI accordingly. > tks, Tobias
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