Element Desktop: CTRL + "+" does not increase font size

[pjaap]

Steps to reproduce

On the current (and previous) versions of Element Desktop (Version of Element: 1.8.5 Version of Olm: 3.2.3, Debian 11, KDE Plasma 5.21) you can decrease the global font size by CTRL + "-" but not increase again by CTRL + "+". Then you are stuck with tiny letters. On some machines the "+" from the numpad works, but not from external keyboards. Commands like CTRL + 0 do not work.

TL;DR: CTRL + "-" is not revertible!

What happened?

What did you expect?

CTRL + "+" increases font size

What happened?

Nothing :(

Operating system

Debian 11, KDE Plasma 5.21 (fails both on X11 and Wayland)

Application version

Version of Element: 1.8.5 Version of Olm: 3.2.3

How did you install the app?

https://packages.riot.im/debian/

Homeserver

matrix.tu-dresden.de

Have you submitted a rageshake?

No

[t3chguy]

Don't forget that on most keyboards, + (on the number row) is Shift + = so the actual key combination is Ctrl + Shift + =

Can you confirm you are actually inputting the right sequence rather than Ctrl + = which is incorrect?

Commands like CTRL + 0 do not work.

I cannot reproduce this, works fine for me. Would be very helpful if you included more details about your environment, e.g your physical keyboard layout and your OS level keyboard layout settings.

[pjaap]

Hi! thanks for the input!
I am on a German keyboard layout. Here, "+" has its own key. But using Ctrl+Shift+"+" also increases font size (is the shortcut internally mapped to the US layout?)

The context menu looks as follows:

Clicking on "vergrößern" actually increases the font size, too.

[t3chguy]

The shortcut mapping is handled by Electron's Accelerators https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/accelerator

On macOS both Cmd+= and Cmd+Shift+= work, as intended by element-hq/element-web#8381

This latest issue you are having seems limited to a subset of keyboard layouts and is tracked upstream as electron/electron#29996