microsoft / microsoft/terminal

settings dropdown menu doesn't respect system wide "make text larger" setting

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Area-SettingsUI Help Wanted Issue-Bug Priority-3 Product-Terminal
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Description

### Windows Terminal version

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### Windows build number

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### Other Software

Setting this to 200%

![image](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/assets/148152939/dc369b13-19ea-4ebf-81b2-013c44e62411)

causes this:

![image](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/assets/148152939/376c77f2-8209-4f78-ae39-ded3375daf2f)

### Steps to reproduce

1. setting system wide "make text size larger" to 200%
2. navigiate to Settings > Startup > Default terminal application dropdown menu

### Expected Behavior

legible rendering

### Actual Behavior

illegible rendering

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue by setting the system-wide text size to 200% and opening Settings > Startup > Default terminal application. Inspect the dropdown's rendering path and compare it with the expected legible result. Done means the dropdown remains readable at the reported scale.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
accessibility
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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