Window title font for Plastik decoration theme at a 150% display scale looks blurry and pixelated

I’m using classical Plastik decoration theme at a 150% display scale and the window title font looks blurry and pixelated. The title font for Breeze theme looks ok.

Compare:

According to https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-0-1-wayland-fractional-scaling-blurry-and-pixelated/11655 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479891 the problem seems to have already been fixed for my environment:

  1. plasma 6.2.4
  2. kde frameworks 6.9.0
  3. qt 6.7.2
  4. wayland

Or is this a issue (or feature) for the Plastik theme only?

Hi! For what it’s worth, there is an existing bug report around some issues with third-party window decorations getting rendered in a blurry or pixelated way when using fractional scaling: 438401 – [Wayland] 3rd-party window decoration pixelatex/badly rendered when fractional display scaling is used

What you’re experiencing might be more related to that issue than the one that you linked to, as the one you linked to impacts text in a lot of different locations, even in the standard Breeze theme - if I’m right, then it’s not totally surprising that you’re still seeing it even with Frameworks 6.9 installed, and progress might depend on the 3rd-party window decoration bug being figured out.

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@johnandmegh, Thanks for response!

progress might depend on the 3rd-party window decoration bug being figured out.

Should I open a new issue for Plastik theme on https://bugs.kde.org (or somewhere else)? Or is the comment 438401 – [Wayland] 3rd-party window decoration pixelatex/badly rendered when fractional display scaling is used (Plastik was mentioned) is enough?

Hmm, good question - originally, I would have thought that a new issue would be needed since the bug component was set to Aurorae, and all the comments concerned that theme engine. However, it now looks like bugs specifically reporting issues with Plastik are also being merged into that one, so conceptually issues with both styles would appear to have the same underlying cause.

By the way, one easy way to keep track of what’s happening with an issue in Bugzilla is using the CC list: by just making sure the box is checked below, nothing else is changed on the page, and clicking “Save Changes”, you’ll then get an email anytime a comment or status change occurs on that bug:

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