Bug 509076

Summary:	Resolution and scale are redundant in display configuration
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	gudvinr+kde
Component:	kcm_kscreen	Assignee:	kscreen-bugs-null <kscreen-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	kcm

Description gudvinr+kde 2025-09-03 15:50:10 UTC

SUMMARY

Resolution and scale shown both in setting section and on screen preview.

Screen preview is already quite small since settings view is huge. When it gets too small on resize it does remove this information but it happens when screen preview is way too small to display anything.

You don't lose anything without this data since it's already there just below.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Display Configuration

OBSERVED RESULT

Duplicated resolution and scale show in arrangement and setting views.

EXPECTED RESULT

Display configuration is concise and doesn't show redundant data.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-09-25 17:59:15 UTC

They are not redundant; they represent different things.

Comment 2 gudvinr+kde 2025-09-25 18:28:44 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> They are not redundant; they represent different things.

Both places show same values. When minimizing window, you lose this information in "preview".

Given that information density here is abnormally high, wherever I look at this KCM it virtually never shows resolution anyway because preview gets minuscule.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-09-25 18:32:32 UTC

They cannot possibly show the same values. Resolution is expressed as something like "1920x1080" while scale is expressed as something like "125%".

Comment 4 gudvinr+kde 2025-09-25 21:04:44 UTC

Created attachment 185286 [details]
kcm

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> They cannot possibly show the same values. Resolution is expressed as
> something like "1920x1080" while scale is expressed as something like "125%".

I am fairly sure we just misunderstand each other. Here's a screenshot to show what I mean.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-09-26 15:40:38 UTC

Right you are, I get it now. You're saying that we don't need to see the resolution and scale in the per-screen previews, because they're already shown in the settings UI. Sorry for the confusion!

That's true for the current screen, but it's also useful to show them for other screens too.

If we removed that info from the current screen as you switched which screen was current, that would be really weird.

So I don't think there's anything we can do here, sorry.

Comment 6 gudvinr+kde 2025-09-29 14:21:32 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> That's true for the current screen, but it's also useful to show them for other screens too.

Problem here is that amount of toggles here is high and whole UI is cramped. So with usual size of the window I use for system settings, this info is hidden anyway.

I'd get it if you'd only show it inside "edit arrangement", where display preview is enlarged but when you try to cramp a lot of information in a tiny space it looks bad.