Created attachment 115918 [details] example where Help window right pane is zoomed in but left pane cannot be zoomed Using 64-bit Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 with 4.0.4-040004-generic kernel LibreOffice version: 5.0.0.0.beta1 Build ID: 0a16c3dda4150008d9be6f24cbd15ac198d116d3 Locale: et-EE (et_EE.UTF-8) Currently only right pane can be zoomed. Would expect also left pane zoom in all tabs: contents, index, find, bookmarks. I mostly mean CTRL+mouse scroll but also CTRL+ +/- would be appreciated - the last shortcut key does not work currently, only zooming with CTRL+mouse wheel works.
The left pane uses the system’s default font size. Isn’t it easier for you to just increase the font size in your system preferences? LibreOffice will pick up that setting. I’m not sure it makes sense to develop custom zoom handling only for that UI element…
Tested to change UI scale factor Both font size increasing permanently would not good idea, especially in case of operating system, which usually requires at least log off/on and impossible to do it fast. Zooming dynamically using CTRL and mouse scroll would be much more useful. Besides - changing UI scale factor does not give feedback earlier than I apply the scale factor. But accidentally applying too big scale factor makes impossible to change it back. It seems like I have to file another feature request to quickly reset the scale factor.
Done - the UI scale factor quick reset feature request - bug 91556. As you can see - changing the UI scale factor does not give dynamically feedback currently and is not reversible an easy way for now. Even if there will be such scale factor reset switch - it is not dynamical way to change font size and therefore not comfortable. The idea was that why make possible to scale only half of Help window - why not make possible to change the rest of window as well? Certainly I can use operating system feature to zoom in/out all apps if such feature exist in used operating system but it might not be possible. I would propose to consider also think for people with special needs and searching that scaling factor change from settings takes too much effort instead of just quickly rescaling it using CTRL+mouse scroll as usually it works in many applications and also in LibreOffice. But yes - I understand that this is not just the text anymore but overall application font size. Then I would propose to have shortcut key to change scale factor. This could be also for UI and possibly using some special key in addition, e.g. CTRL+ALT+ +/- or mouse scroll. Here should be careful as chosen shortcut key might change e.g. GUI resolution in Linux or similar.
Created attachment 115925 [details] example view of Help with 400% size Using 64-bit Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 with 4.0.4-040004-generic kernel LibreOffice version: 5.0.0.0.beta1 Build ID: 0a16c3dda4150008d9be6f24cbd15ac198d116d3 Locale: et-EE (et_EE.UTF-8) As seen on the image - changing scale factor not dynamically gives delayed feedback and is not comfortable way to change it and also revert back to normal.
Setting to NEW.
After our Help changing to web pages it should be close as WONTFIX