elementary / elementary/triage

Fractional Scale under 100%

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Description

### Problem

Sometimes there's a situation where one wants to make the UI *smaller* than 100%, like on a relatively large, but low-resolution screen (some laptops I've used had this)

### Proposal

elementary/gala should allow setting the display scale to less than 100%, to shrink down the UI

### Prior Art (Optional)

KDE Plasma supports this in their scaling options, by just setting the scale to a percentage value like `70%` it will scale down the UI.

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Research direction

Begin in elementary/gala by locating its current display-scaling entry point and how percentage values are validated; the issue provides no file or test path. Compare the behavior with KDE Plasma’s 70% scaling example, then confirm that a sub-100% setting can be selected and consistently shrinks the UI.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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