Unable to configure menu font size on 4k (15") laptop display under Linux (Arduino 1.8.10)
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Component: IDE user interface
Type: Bug
- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
On a 4k laptop screen (Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen2 - Ubuntu 19.10) the application menu font is unable to be configured/scaled.
The interface scaling gives a legible editor, console and toolbar. But the application menus themselves are not affected and remain at a point size too small to see easily (Or at all if it's more than 100mm away)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Arduino IDE 1.8.10 on Ubuntu 19.10 with a 4K ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen2 display, comparing the scalable editor, console, and toolbar with the application menus. Trace the existing interface-scaling behavior and determine how menu font size is handled; done means the menus are legible at the same scaling level.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100