GNOME users, I have some questions for you! This won’t single-handedly drive the design of GNOME (I’m not that influential… yet 😉 ), but anecdata is always nice to help unstick design discussions or just gather insights.
(Polls will follow posts as I can’t share an image and a poll, sadly.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the Files app? Note this is NOT the same as the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app.
(Answer in the following poll.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the Files app? Note this is NOT the same as the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app.
(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app? Note this is NOT the same as when browsing in the Files app.
(Answer in the following poll.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app? Note this is NOT the same as when browsing in the Files app.
(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Starred” view in the Files app?
(Answer in the following poll.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Starred” view in the Files app?
(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Large Text” option in Settings → Accessibility → Seeing?
Alternatively, do you set a different font scaling factor somewhere else, e.g. in Tweaks?
(Answer in the following poll.)
If you use GNOME, do you use the “Large Text” option in Settings → Accessibility → Seeing?
Alternatively, do you set a different font scaling factor somewhere else, e.g. in Tweaks?
(See previous post for screenshots, reply for context.)
@pauldoo is there a reason to not use per-display scaling, in that case?
It’s possible fractional scaling is not enabled for you since it’s not by default in GNOME (yet! We’re working to change that!).
@pauldoo ah, I think you’ll be happy when we ship fractional scaling; it remembers per-display configuration!
If you want to give it a try early, you can either run:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
…from a terminal, or use dconf Editor (available on Flathub) to browse to /org/gnome/mutter/experimental-features and check "scale-monitor-framebuffer" manually.
Log out/in and you’re set! Just check out the new settings in Settings → Displays.
@pauldoo to revert, either use dconf Editor to reset the setting, or run:
gsettings reset org.gnome.mutter experimental-features
…in a terminal, then log out/in or reboot.
@cassidy Have enabled it now. I can see why it's experimental.. My mouse cursor is clipped.. hehe :)
Also, the display settings doesn't let me set 1.20 (what I often set font scaling to), but only 25% increments. Also also, it doesn't let me make things smaller. There's one laptop I use (with a rubbish low res screen) where I set font scaling to 0.9.
Cassidy James 
Paul Richards