https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422552
Bug ID: 422552
Summary: Auto-detect appropriate scale factor for the easy
cases (e.g. 4k screen)
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: n...@kde.org
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
Right now Plasma does not apply any kind of automatic scaling. For difficult
cases like FHD resolution on a 14" screen, or 1440p resolution on a 13" screen,
this makes sense, as there isn't yet consensus on how to handle this, and doing
so might be technically thorny; see https://phabricator.kde.org/T13158.
However there is a very easy case where we can guess with near-100% certainty
what we should do: the case of the 4k screen. No matter what physical size the
screen is, a 4K screen always benefits from applying a 200% scale factor. Maybe
the user might in the end prefer 225% or 250% or whatever, but 200% is always
more correct than the default 100% for these screens.
I would recommend that Plasma automatically apply an initial scale factor of
200% for 4k screens to improve the out-of-the-box experience for users with 4K
screen hardware.
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