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[Bug 1434272] [NEW] Icons are too small when title bars and menus are scaled by 1.75

 

Public bug reported:

I've just installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a Macbook Pro Retina 13. I tried
setting the menu and title bar scaling to 1.75 but the icons did not
scale up appropriately; they stayed at a factor of 1 AFAICT. Certain
apps, eg Nautilus and the settings app, seemed to be using the icon size
to determine layout, so the text appeared cramped and some was
truncated. I increased the setting to 2 and then the icons did scale up
(but not the pointer, see #1359211). However, now title bars, menus and
other text-based widgets are larger than ideal. I can reduce the font
sizes with unity-tweak-tool but it doesn't seem to affect the title bar
size etc.

I presume the lack of icon scaling is because GTK only supports integer
scaling settings and Unity is rounding down the setting for it. Please
could it be changed to round up for fractions over 0.5.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: unity 7.3.1+14.10.20141016-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-31.43-generic 3.16.7-ckt5
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 19 20:51:27 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug utopic

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Title:
  Icons are too small when title bars and menus are scaled by 1.75

Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've just installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a Macbook Pro Retina 13. I tried
  setting the menu and title bar scaling to 1.75 but the icons did not
  scale up appropriately; they stayed at a factor of 1 AFAICT. Certain
  apps, eg Nautilus and the settings app, seemed to be using the icon
  size to determine layout, so the text appeared cramped and some was
  truncated. I increased the setting to 2 and then the icons did scale
  up (but not the pointer, see #1359211). However, now title bars, menus
  and other text-based widgets are larger than ideal. I can reduce the
  font sizes with unity-tweak-tool but it doesn't seem to affect the
  title bar size etc.

  I presume the lack of icon scaling is because GTK only supports
  integer scaling settings and Unity is rounding down the setting for
  it. Please could it be changed to round up for fractions over 0.5.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: unity 7.3.1+14.10.20141016-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-31.43-generic 3.16.7-ckt5
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Mar 19 20:51:27 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-19 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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