[bug #60914] Default UI is too small to read on high DPI screens

[Nate Graham]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60914>

                 Summary: Default UI is too small to read on high DPI screens
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: ngraham
            Submitted on: Mon 12 Jul 2021 08:26:36 PM UTC
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Hardware-specific
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 
                 Release: other
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga laptop with a 3820x2160 14" screen. I run
Fedora 34 with KDE Plasma and the UI scaled to 200%; GNOME and other DEs have
similar functionality to scale the UI. However the GRUB screen is not scaled
in this way. As a result, any text and interactive UI elements are almost
unreadably small. See the attached screen screenshot for an example.

The grub2 version is 2.06.

I originally filed this issue on Fedora's bug tracker
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964673), but they said it was an
upstream issue, so I am filing this bug here.

I did not have this issue on openSUSE Tumbleweed because the UI is different
there; perhaps they override the default theme to have larger text.



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Date: Mon 12 Jul 2021 08:26:36 PM UTC  Name: UI@too@small.jpg  Size: 2MiB  
By: ngraham
UI too small to read
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=51664>

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