Bug 508602

Summary: Hover Icons in the Clipboard system tray widget are too small with screen resolution of 50%
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Shaun Roselt <shaunroselt>
Component: Clipboard widget & pop-upAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdedev, nate, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508595
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Attachments: Hover Icons in the Clipboard widget are too small

Description Shaun Roselt 2025-08-22 12:31:41 UTC
Created attachment 184350 [details]
Hover Icons in the Clipboard widget are too small

SUMMARY

When you hover on an item in your clipboard system tray popup widget, then the icons are very small. You can't even see what it is.

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. Go look at it.

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 23:19:28 UTC
This is a result of setting the screen resolution to 50%, which reduces the size of many UI elements. I'll forward this to the developers to see if there's a way to add functionality to allow those to be enlarged with a smaller screen resolution, but then I'm not sure what the point of setting the resolution that small would be.

Can you describe the need that is being served for you with setting the screen resolution to 50%?
Comment 2 Shaun Roselt 2025-08-26 05:46:51 UTC
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #1)
> Can you describe the need that is being served for you with setting the
> screen resolution to 50%?

Three reasons:
* When setting the scaling to 50%, then things go smaller, so I've got more screen real estate basically. * It's also very useful for when I have a small screen like let's say below 10", and connect remotely to that 10" from a larger 27" or bigger screen. Having 50% scale on the 10" is great in this scenario.
* Having 50% scaling allows me to set 4K resolution in video games on a 1080p screen.
Comment 3 TraceyC 2025-08-26 16:31:33 UTC
Thanks for explaining. I'll pass this along to the developers.
Comment 4 TraceyC 2025-08-26 20:26:03 UTC
After speaking with Nate, I'm afraid we'll have to close the bugs related to the large font size with 50% display scaling. As he mentioned in bug 508595, Plasma isn't designed to support this and it would be a large amount of work to change that.