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#1255 Unsuitable fontsize, size of icons and line spaces on a 11in tablet
I installed jabref 2.10 on a surface pro 3 (win 8.1) which has a resolution of 2160x1440 on a ~11in monitor. The default font size of jabref are much too small and so quite unreadable.
I managed to change the font size of the menus and the entries (but not in the "preview") but the icons below the menu are perhaps 2mm large and difficult to use with a mouse (impossible on touch). Also in some dialogs (e.g. the options for xmp-metadata) the line spacing of the tabulars don't adapt to the larger font space and so are difficult to read and to use.
Ulrike Fischer
Same problem here with 2560x1440 on a 25" monitor. You can adjust font sizes for menu entries and the table lines via settings, but not the icon sizes - see the attached screenshot.
Scaling up to high-res monitors in java seems to be a general problem with Java Swing though, as it should normally inherit this setting from the environment (like the X-Server) as other apps do it. Nevertheless, having scalable icons would certainly improve the current situation.
On Windows, setting com.jgoodies.looks.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel at Preferences/Advanced/Look and Feel/"Use other look and feel" seems to be a solution on Windows. Still searching for a solution for other OS.
Tracket at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/113 and targetted for v3.0.
I'm seeing this problem on Win 10 with Jabref 3.3 (the .jar file). Additionally, the ctrl-+ keyboard shortcut (to increase font size) does not work.