[HN Gopher] This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling
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       This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling
        
       Author : sz4kerto
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2022-12-25 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | MBCook wrote:
       | Wow it sounds like they've improved quite a lot.
        
       | akdor1154 wrote:
       | You beauties! This is like the final architectural niggle with
       | Wayland, I'm so pleased to see it being addressed.
        
       | OhSoHumble wrote:
       | This is one of the more important aspects of Linux desktop usage
       | for me. I am currently on Gnome but would switch in a literal
       | heartbeat to KDE if fractional scaling dropped for it first.
       | 
       | Next up: better handling of screen sharing under Wayland. If
       | that's done then I have no problem using Linux in a professional
       | environment since I deliver presentations and collaborate
       | virtually quite a bit.
        
         | zdragnar wrote:
         | Screen sharing in Wayland has been pretty painless for me with
         | the exception of Zoom. The native app refuses to believe that
         | I'm running one of the "approved" distros and won't even try,
         | so if I need to share my screen, I just pop out of the meeting
         | in the native app and rejoin from chrome.
        
       | abcdabcd987 wrote:
       | I'm using 27-inch 4K monitors with Gnome. I found it more
       | practical to use no scaling but 1.25x text size (settings in
       | gnome-tweaks). The problem for me with 2x scaling or fractional
       | scaling is that it scales UI (icons, margins) as well. As someone
       | who appreciates functionality (i.e., displaying text) over
       | overdesigned white spacing, scaling the whole UI is just wasting
       | my workspace size whereas scaling text-only is a perfect balance
       | between good-looking text and workspace size.
       | 
       | But anyway, good to see that Linux desktop is gaining fractional
       | scaling support!
        
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