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KDE better supported than Gnome for GUI scaling?

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Description

### System Information

Ubuntu LTS 24.04 w/ Gnome

### LMMS Version(s)

1.2.2

### Most Recent Working Version

_No response_

### Bug Summary

Hi everyone,

My laptop screen is a high resolution screen (about 2500x1600) and when I installed LMMS (Ubuntu LTS w/ its default desktop environment) the UI was too small for it to be used.

As I also got other minor issues on this system (related to my microphone, + I wasn't a big fan of some aspect of Gnome), I decided to distro hop to Kubuntu LTS 24.04.

So I installed LMMS on this new system and I was pleased to find out that the UI was correctly scaled this time.

TL;DR: It seems that KDE is better supported by LMMS 1.2.2 than Gnome when it comes to GUI scale detection.

If it's technically possible, implementing a setting to manually change the UI scale would help when people are experiencing this kind of issue.
I heard that there is a trick to do it by tweaking a setting in a config file somewhere, but it might discourage some users to stick with LMMS once they got through the settings and didn't find out a way to scale the UI through a user interface.

I tried to see if there already was an opened ticket on this kind of problem but it does not seem to be the case, please tell me if I missed one.

I'm willing to provide as much details as I can.

### Expected Behaviour

LMMS should be able to detect which scale the UI should use regardless of the desktop environment that's in use... Or provide a Graphical setting to scale it manually 😁

### Steps To Reproduce

Running LMMS on a gnome-based Linux distro (it was either Ubuntu 24.0.4.3 or 24.0.4.5) on a high resolution screen
I don't have any logs to provide you with as I already switched to a new system, but I could provide a hardware report if you think it could be helpful.

### Logs

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### Screenshots / Minimum Reproducible Project

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### Please search the issue tracker for existing bug reports before submitting your own.

- [x] I have searched all existing issues and confirmed that this is not a duplicate.

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Research direction

The report does not name source files, tests, or an entry point. Reproduce the scaling difference on Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu, then verify that LMMS detects the same high-DPI scale or exposes a usable manual setting.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux, ubuntu
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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