lockscreen: textscaling settings are applied but they shouldn't

What problem did you encounter

The locker content is rendered to big to fit in screen and is moved out of center.

What is the current behaviour?

the lockscreen uses this text-scale value and scales the entire screen content with it.

Result: the number block hits the right screen border, because it's no longer in the center. All texts overflow to the right outside of viewport.

What is the expected behaviour?

Reset text-scaling and Fontsize to DEFAULT aka 1.0 while locker is shown.

How to reproduce

I.e. set ...

Gnome-Tweaks -> Fonts -> text-scaling => 1.25 or 1.5

Which version did you encounter the bug in?

• I Compiled it myself. If you compiled phosh from source please provide the git revision via e.g. by running git log -1 --pretty=oneline and pasting the output below.

• I used the precompiled Debian package (e.g. by running a prebuilt image). Please paste the output oof dpkg -s phosh below.

  Phosh Version:

What hardware are you running phosh on?

• amd64 qemu image
• Librem5 devkit
• nested compositor. If so please give the full command you start phosh with.
• other (please elaborte)

Releveant logfiles

Please provide relevant logs. You can e.g. the logs since last boot read with journalctl -b 0.

I'd say you get what you configure. @tobias.bernard what's the current status regarding gnome-tweaks and such issues?

gnome-tweaks is an unsupported app that mostly does unsupported stuff, basically you get to keep both pieces

That said large text is an a11y feature which is supported and exposed in g-c-c (and works by setting text scaling to 1.25 - tweaks allows arbitrary values ≤ 3.0)

Yeah, anything in Tweaks is explicitly unsupported.

The "large text" a11y setting in Settings is something we should support, but AFAIK we're still pretty far from that being a reality. It effectively means apps being able to scale down even further than 360, and most adaptive apps barely fit onto 360 as-is.

That said, I do think we should advertise this to app developers more. If we can people to test against large text more consistently, this is not unsolvable in the long run. Perhaps something to consider as part of this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-builder/-/issues/935

I really hope, that will not be your answer to people with poor eyesight.

@cyborgscode it thought that's what the 'large text' toggle is for - not saying that works correctly all over the place but i don't think Tweaks should be required or that.

Tweaks was involved, because i had gnome-shell running instead of phosh. Which works better in some cases, i.e. GPS is working with gnome-maps, which it isn't under phosh. So Text-Scaling was set in gnome, and adopted by phosh, when it started and so we got to the testresults :)

Issue moved to https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/issues/506

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