Increase size of the settings menu font

[atvrider]

Could the default size of the settings menu font be changed to be about twice as large as it currently is? The current size seems unreasonably small, I have pretty average eyesight up close and I have to lean in and focus really hard to be able to see what the text says.

The size of text for the line that says "Graphical user interface (GUI)" should be about the size of text for all of the options in this menu.

[Spekular]

Here's a quick comparison of a few setup dialogues, in context. (LMMS Scaled, LMMS, Ableton, FL)

DAW	FG value	BG value	Diff	Low text height	Tall text height	Notes
LMMS	100	18	82	5	8	Drop shadow with value 25, offset 1px left and 1px down
Ableton	0	52	52	5	8
FL	80	29	51	6	8

Ableton's text is IMO much more legible than ours despite having the same exact size and a lower contrast. FL studio gets away with even lower contrast at just 1px higher base to mean height, so I doubt light on dark text is the issue. I think our drop shadow is reducing text sharpness, because it has a value in-between that of the text and the background. Removing it might fix the issue without adjusting size.

If size is to be adjusted, note the config window on the far left. By scaling the sub-section content to fill the window, the settings text size becomes roughly equivalent to the current heading size, and comparable to other text inside LMMS.

[Spekular]

We can definitely shorten a lot of these setting descriptions by removing the unnecessary "enable" text and other changes (mostly to verb use).

• Volume as dBFS
• Show tooltips
• Master oscilloscope on by default
• Label all notes in piano roll
• Compact track buttons
• One instrument-window mode
• Sidebar on right hand side
• Continue sample previews after mouse release
• Mute automation tracks during solo
• Warn when deleting tracks
• Create a backup file when saving

[allejok96]

Just a Windows/Linux comparsion... I am more disturbed by the Windows type hinting than the font size, although it is very small.

[alekspickle]

Is there a way to enlarge all UI fonts altogether or scale the whole UI? IMO it's all pretty small

[inucat]

I was also suffered but found that a CSS file in the theme directory matters.
They are located in /usr/share/lmms/themes/*/style.css in Linux.
In the CSS, find font-size: and change the value to, say, 14pt, then restart LMMS.
You can also add something like * {font-size: 20pt;}, and comment out any other font-size: lines.

You can edit them directly, but I recommend you to copy the theme directory somewhere under your HOME then modify, and update the theme path in LMMS.

[Rossmaxx]

I believe @michaelgregorius is working on this.

[michaelgregorius]

Hi @atvrider, the settings dialog has been reworked with pull request #6779. It now uses layouts and the default font size of the application/system. @zonkmachine has posted a very nice side-by-side comparison in this comment.

Can you please check with a recent build if your issue has been resolved?

[michaelgregorius]

Closing this issue due to the changes made in pull request #6779. Please reopen it if there is something missing.