MySQL Bugs: #75819: Workbench might have hard-coded font settings that make it difficult to read

Bug #75819	Workbench might have hard-coded font settings that make it difficult to read
Submitted:	7 Feb 2015 21:31	Modified:	9 Feb 2015 11:12
Reporter:	Marcelo Ruiz	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	6.2.4	OS:	Linux (Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	WBBugReporter

Description:
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The font size of menus (File, Edit, View...) are too small and do not follow the OS settings. This is not the case with the items in the Popup Menu item (New Model, New Query Tab, Open Model...).
Also, all the fonts in the Schemas and Management tabs on the left are too small and difficult to read.

How to repeat:
Run MySQL Workbench on Linux on a high resolution screen and change the OS theme settings (increase font sizes) to verify that just parts of MySQL Workbench adapt to the change 

Suggested fix:
Make MySQL Workbench responsive to changes in the theme's settings or provide an internal fonts settings for increasing the font size.

Picture 1 of the problem

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Picture 2 of the problem

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Thank you for the bug report.

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=76076 marked as duplicate of this one.

Workbench Fonts are too big compared to other applications

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Can we expect any change to happen? I assume this is like five minutes of work for any seasoned programmer, could you please fix this asap, THANKS!

This problem doesn't just appear on Linux.  It's the same on a Windows or Mac machine.  

The problem is NOT non-critical.  On a high res screen (like a 27" Mac), the fonts are so small that it is impossible to work in MySQL Workbench, so this is a critical problem.

It has been around since before 2010!!  When is someone going to fix this relatively simple problem?

White on white isn't very easy to read.

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On a 4K monitor I cannot read the column names in the Table Editor.
This really needs addressing.
I'm on Windows 10 and it's a royal pain.

Even in the rest of the application it is impossible to see / read anything . How is possible to use this application ?

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Even in the rest of the application it is impossible to see / read anything . How is possible to use this application ? (see ima

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We have the same problem. With 4K displays on Windows 10 it's nearly impossible to read the tables and schemes in the navigator screen. Also the administration screen is not readable for normal humans - maybe for young people with eagle eyes, but not for anybody else.

It's a bit a shame for Oracle that you are not not able to fix this problem. MySQL Workbench is a great product, but this bug makes this product not usable for all people which have big displays - and there are a lot of users there, which have such big displays. So please fix this bug. And as already mentioned by other users, it's not a uncritical bug. It's very important for a big community of MySQL Workbench users.