Bug 1382840

Summary:	GtkSourceView widget ignores desktop-wide text scaling factor
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Valentini <decathorpe>
Component:	gtksourceview3	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
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Description Fabio Valentini 2016-10-07 20:44:28 UTC

Description of problem:

Since GNOME 3.22 the GtkSourceView widget (as used in gedit, gnome-builder, etc.) ignores the text scaling factor set in the "org.gnome.desktop.interface.text-scaling-factor" gsettings key.

As a result, all text is scaled properly, except in the GtkSourceView widget, which is much too big (in my case). Setting the font size to something like 8pt manually is not really acceptable, because most fonts seem to lose readability at sizes that small. In contrast, scaling bigger font sizes down doesn't seem to have that negative optical impact.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gtksourceview3-3.22.0-2.fc25.x86_64
gtk3-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64

Comment 1 Eric Work 2016-12-28 05:07:01 UTC

This same problem happens in meld which also uses gtksourceview.  In my case since the font scaling is set to 1.5 the fonts are too small.  I resolved the problem by increasing the font size 1.5x to match the rest of the desktop.  It's an easy workaround in my case but still inconsistent with the rest of the desktop.

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Comment 3 Fabio Valentini 2017-11-16 22:01:42 UTC

A fix for this regression is still being discussed upstream.

Comment 4 Fabio Valentini 2018-05-15 22:15:35 UTC

It looks like this has been fixed upstream, and gedit on fedora 28 displays the correct font size - so I guess I'll close this bug :)