Bug 508599

Summary: The emojis are too small and I can't really see them properly
Product: [Applications] Emoji Selector Reporter: Shaun Roselt <shaunroselt>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: kdedev
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: The emojis are too small and I can't really see them properly

Description Shaun Roselt 2025-08-22 12:19:24 UTC
Created attachment 184347 [details]
The emojis are too small and I can't really see them properly

SUMMARY

When looking at the Emoji Selector, the emojis are extremely small and you can't zoom in on them. They're just stuck very small.

I should be able to zoom in and see them bigger.

See attached screenshot.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Plug in a 1080p 27" Monitor
2.  Set Scale to 50%
3.  Set Font Size to 23pt
4. Look at Emojis on Emoji Selector


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-08-25 23:06:27 UTC
This is the same issue as bug 508595. When applying 16 point font size or greater, the System Settings - font page has a warning at this stage "Very large fonts may produce odd looking results. Instead of using a very large font size, consider adjusting the global screen scale". This is, unfortunately, a limitation of the window manager code.

We discovered that Adjust All Fonts doesn't show the warning, bug 508738 has been filed for that.