https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441942

Nate Graham <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> ---
This is an interesting subject, and I have done a lot of thinking about it
myself.

The problem with giving users knobs like these is that most users don't
understand these optical and ergonomic details. Even simply asking them the
average distance they sit away from the screen will not work either since this
distance will change depending on the screen content, the physical hardware,
and the details of usage (e.g. with a laptop, you will use the computer farther
from your face when it is sitting on a desk or a table compared to when it is
sitting on your lap. You would need eye tracking to make this feature work,
which would be super creepy, IMO.

Ultimately I think the only UI control it makes sense to prevent to the user is
a scaling slider, so they can determine for themselves what the right scaling
factor is by simply looking at the screen and stopping moving the slider when
things are about the right size for their preference. This also handles the
case where an algorithmically-determined scale based on a given viewing
distance might differ from the user's preferred scaling setting.

Since we already have such a scale slider, I don't think there's anything to be
done here. :)

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