Bug 485017 - Blurry text and icons at 1440p@125% vs 5.27
Summary: Blurry text and icons at 1440p@125% vs 5.27
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.0.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL:
Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-04-04 08:55 UTC by dft
Modified: 2024-06-01 03:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
5.27 - Settings panel, clear icons and text (278.21 KB, image/png)
2024-04-04 08:55 UTC, dft
Details
5.27 - Dolphin viewing pic - look at text on toolbar and images and clean desktop toolbar (278.21 KB, image/png)
2024-04-04 08:57 UTC, dft
Details
Sorry this is the actual Dolphin eg. (1.12 MB, image/jpeg)
2024-04-04 08:58 UTC, dft
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Blurry settings on KDE 6 (372.55 KB, image/png)
2024-04-04 09:00 UTC, dft
Details
Blurry dolphin and toolbar on KDE 6 (1.91 MB, image/png)
2024-04-04 09:02 UTC, dft
Details
Clear start menu on KDE 6 (2.75 MB, image/png)
2024-04-04 09:04 UTC, dft
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Description dft 2024-04-04 08:55:48 UTC
Created attachment 168132 [details]
5.27 - Settings panel, clear icons and text

SUMMARY
On 5.27 using Font DPI of 120 all icons and text is clear and crisp. On 6+ Icons on toolbar are blurry and text in general is blurry. I resize the toolbar to allow 2 cols I think this confuses the scaling of both the toolbar code and kde. Instead of using an icon more suited to a higher dpi it uses a lower res and then kde ends up resizing that. What interesting though is that clicking on the "Start" menu shows crisp and clean text and icons...as per image

In addition you can see how even the settings window text looks blurry. In the screenshots.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set scaling to 125% on a 1440p screen
2. Resize toolbar to allow for 2 cols in systray
3. Reboot / logout

OBSERVED RESULT
Blurry overly large icons with wasted padding, blurry settings window, blurry text in Dolphin

EXPECTED RESULT
Crisp clean fonts and icons like on 5.27 using Font DPI scaling.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: CachyOS for 5.27 and Nobara for V6

CachyOS - Crisp and clean
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12

Nobara - Blurry
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Comment 1 dft 2024-04-04 08:57:01 UTC
Created attachment 168133 [details]
5.27 - Dolphin viewing pic - look at text on toolbar and images and clean desktop toolbar
Comment 2 dft 2024-04-04 08:58:51 UTC
Created attachment 168134 [details]
Sorry this is the actual Dolphin eg.
Comment 3 dft 2024-04-04 08:59:10 UTC
Comment on attachment 168133 [details]
5.27 - Dolphin viewing pic - look at text on toolbar and images and clean desktop toolbar

Settings window
Comment 4 dft 2024-04-04 09:00:29 UTC
Created attachment 168135 [details]
Blurry settings on KDE 6
Comment 5 dft 2024-04-04 09:02:02 UTC
Created attachment 168136 [details]
Blurry dolphin and toolbar on KDE 6

Look at text in FM and toolbar and icons on desktop toolbar - compare to 5.27.
Comment 6 dft 2024-04-04 09:04:05 UTC
Created attachment 168137 [details]
Clear start menu on KDE 6

As you can see the "start" menu looks great, crisp icons and crisp text this on KDE 6 so I don't understand why Dolphin, settings and desktop tool bar look so blurry.
Comment 7 Zamundaaa 2024-05-02 13:49:25 UTC
If you fullscreen Dolphin or system settings, are text and icons sharp then?
Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2024-05-17 03:45:24 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Janitor Service 2024-06-01 03:45:58 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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