Spacedrive doesn't respect OS default font settings

[mdcclxv]

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Issue description

I think title says it all.

Steps to reproduce

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Platform and versions

• OS: Arch Linux with KDe/Plasma 6.2
• Spacedrive: 0.4.2

Screenshot bellow, top part how it's supposed to look, bottom part, the Spacedrive window: fonts are small, smudged, hardly readable.

While the features offered by Spacedrive sound appealing, this is definitely a show stopper for me. I cannot use an application that puts such a strain on my eyes.

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[linear]

ENG-1935 Spacedrive doesn't follow OS font settings: font face, font size and anti-aliasing

[Pinguin2001]

You might want to look into this codepen: https://codepen.io/arielsalminen/pen/WQyPxV

[mdcclxv]

Sorry, no idea what you are trying to tell me with that piece of code. Anyways,whatever the explanation, it's just plain wrong what Spacedrive does.

EDIT: and looking at the text on the left, I can see it was tested on all kind of browsers. But what I installed is a local standalone app. I'm not talking about a web page. Look at the screenshot carefully.

[yaten2302]

Hey @mdcclxv @fogodev , I've a doubt regarding this issue. Is this issue related to the front-end part? I've knowledge of TypeScript, and this is my first contribution with spacedrive, if anyone of you could guide me with this, it would be really helpful.

[iLynxcat]

Hi @mdcclxv, thanks for bringing this to our attention — though a majority of our users are happy with our default styling, this is the first feedback involving antialiasing that I've seen and I absolutely understand why this is might be a usability concern for you. I'll do some exploration on this and either implement the fix myself — if I have time — or post the requirements here for someone on our team (likely for this specific issue) or an open-source contributor (hi, @yaten2302!) to take up.

Note: the app is still in an alpha release stage, so we're still going to be working on some of the polish and minor issues like this through beta until our 1.0 release.

[yaten2302]

Hey @iLynxcat , thanks for your response!! If this issue is required, I would definitely like to work on it.

Also, I wanted to ask that by the time this issue gets approved, are there some other open issues which I can take up? (or are those being look into by your team?) I found this project quite interesting and that's why I'm very eager to contribute to this :)

[iLynxcat]

Let's take conversation about other issues away from this one so we don't spam everyone with notifications. Happy to chat with you either in a GitHub discussion or in our Discord server.

[mdcclxv]

@iLynxcat That would indeed be awesome. Thank you :)

[yaten2302]

Let's take conversation about other issues away from this one so we don't spam everyone with notifications. Happy to chat with you either in a GitHub discussion or in our Discord server.

Moving this discussion to - #2775