Fractional scaling has landed in GNOME 3.32 (and may make it into Ubuntu 19.04)(gitlab.gnome.org)

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Fractional scaling has landed in GNOME 3.32 (and may make it into Ubuntu 19.04)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/5

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Anyone know how this will work in browser and apps like Electron?

All my icons are vectors or fonts so I can scale them proportionally.

I'm still behind the curve on dark mode though..

I saw a reference to a proposed web standard to detect if the user prefers a dark mode but can't find it now.

marco17 lat temu

@media (prefers-color-scheme: light|dark|no-preference) { ... }

https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#descdef-media-prefe...

colejohnson667 lat temu

Not web standard, but for macOS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25207077/how-to-detect-i...

jdillaaa7 lat temu

finally! been waiting forever for this on my WQHD thinkpad with wayland

edit: good post and discussion here https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3....