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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by abcdabcd987 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:36PM (#34132218)
I'm using 27-inch 4K monitors with Gnome. I found it more practical to use no scaling but 1.25x text size (settings in gnome-tweaks). The problem for me with 2x scaling or fractional scaling is that it scales UI (icons, margins) as well. As someone who appreciates functionality (i.e., displaying text) over overdesigned white spacing, scaling the whole UI is just wasting my workspace size whereas scaling text-only is a perfect balance between good-looking text and workspace size.

But anyway, good to see that Linux desktop is gaining fractional scaling support!

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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by Ruq on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:15PM (#34133053)
There is a way to toggle experimental fractional scaling in GNOME.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI -> 1.1.1 Fractional Scaling

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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by int_19h on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:50PM (#34133685)
It's done by upscaling and downscaling by integer amounts, so it's not quite the same as true fractional scaling.
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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by fsh on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:31AM (#34135817)
It works ok, Apple does it the same way. However, I find Microsoft's approach better.
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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by noisem4ker on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:36PM (#34236801)
>It works ok

...if you're OK with blur and wasted performance. I like my text crisp, rendered exactly to the desired size, with subpixel antialiasing, and knowing my hardware is not wasting cycles in rendering to a higher-than-needed resolution and then throwing some of that away with raster resampling.

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Re:This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling by markeibes on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:31PM (#34143110)
What does overdesigned mean? I suppose you mean relying on scientifically proven design practices such as improving readability through use of whitespace and font sizes.

Do you have an example of this being overdone?

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