The toolbox as by default shown in the top-left corner of plasmashell scales its rectangle size with font size. So, if one increases the fontsize to (e.g.) 16pt and restarts plasma the toolbox will be notibly bigger than it was at 10pt. This is worsened by the fact that the actual icon of the toolbox does not get scaled thus looking very weird. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 87540 [details] screenshot 16pt
Created attachment 87541 [details] screenshot 10pt
Plasma bases a lot of things on the font size as a crude way of determining DPI. Why do you have such a huge font on that size screen anyway?
short answer: because it's possible long answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargardt_disease and generally any visual impairment where larger fonts help readability
The short answer is not very convincing. As for the longer argument, one argument behind the choice of using font is that "if you need to make the fonts bigger, you'd want everything else bigger too" Is that not true?
Yes, but the thing is everything else isn't bigger. The frame is bigger, the icon is not, so that does next to nothing for accessibility. I'll gladly agree with a fix that makes the icon scale proportional to the frame though :)
OK, cool. Confirming.
It's intended to me this way, but the icon should scale too. also, everything is using units.gridUnit that right now is based purely on the font size. it should be based instead on proper dpi. I feel the proper solution can come only with (probably Qt 5.4?) when the highdpi branch is merged, so there is an unified way to scale the ui
Git commit e38dc4f0dadd5ca40f34e4ba538eedd23c594e92 by Aleix Pol. Committed on 08/07/2014 at 14:15. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Adapt icon size to toolbox size Instead of using the internal iconSize, use the toolbox's size. M +2 -2 toolboxes/desktoptoolbox/contents/ui/ToolBoxButton.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/e38dc4f0dadd5ca40f34e4ba538eedd23c594e92
Git commit 177ba4e5d10f788f267791ca5782e44ae861df64 by David Edmundson. Committed on 11/07/2014 at 10:25. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'Plasma/5.0'. Remove completley wrong changes to ToolboxButton Adapt iconsize to toolbox size introduces a blatant binding loop It was changed to be 0.8 of the frame, but the frame was based on the icon size The binding loop was then "fixed" by wrapping in an item which doesn't fix the root problem of it being a loop. The iconSize comes from units.iconSize.Small in ToolBoxRoot in the first place, making the entire change pointless. If we do want to scale the icon we just need to change that one line in ToolBoxRoot. We certainly don't want to make changes that leave stray unused properties about. Revert "remove undetected binding loop" This reverts commit eddb56e5a7cac3cd631f1cb8e315af02f57779ee. Revert "use standard icons sizes for the toolbox icon" This reverts commit 216ee387648f7105561dabcf33d06ec880be65a3. Revert "Adapt icon size to toolbox size" This reverts commit e38dc4f0dadd5ca40f34e4ba538eedd23c594e92. Related: bug 336441 REVIEW: 119229 M +16 -34 toolboxes/desktoptoolbox/contents/ui/ToolBoxButton.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/177ba4e5d10f788f267791ca5782e44ae861df64