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N-Panel font size in 3.1 too big
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19042-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 511.79

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.1.0, branch: master, commit date: 2022-03-08 18:16, hash: rBc77597cd0e15
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
The n-panel font sized increased in 3.1 comared to 3.0

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
The space of the n-panel is super limited as we all know.
In 3.1 the fontsize increased.

3.0.03.1

Steps to reproduce
Please open Blender 3.0 and Blender 3.1 with the n-panel open and switch between boths windows. you should see that the n-panel text appears bigger/bolder in 3.1.

Workaround: Decrease in Themes -> Text Style the Widget points to 10. Then the n-panel has the same/a similar font size as in 3.0, but a lot of other ui elements workspace tabs get also in decreased size, which makes them appear much smaller as in 3.0.

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D14322rBb959f603da45 Fix T96267: Sidebar Tab Font Size Correction

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Rincewind (Rincewind3D) created this task.Mar 9 2022, 6:41 PM
Thomas Dinges (dingto) added a subscriber: Thomas Dinges (dingto).Mar 9 2022, 8:16 PM

Cannot confirm that here. Can you check with File -> Defaults -> Load Factory Settings?

Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.Mar 9 2022, 9:12 PM

intresting, that's it's not broken for you.

Even if start Blender with an empty profile the n-tab fonts are too big.

Load Factory Setting is of course also not helping for me.

That's how it's looking with a complete fresh profile for 3.1:

Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.Mar 9 2022, 9:30 PM

just tested it on a fresh install on macOS.
Also on macOS the fonts size of the n-panel appears bigger als in 3.0

Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.Mar 9 2022, 9:38 PM

it may be that not the font size is increased, but the font in the n-panel is bold know.

that's the theory of an other Blender user I know who just confirmed the bug.

@Thomas Dinges (dingto)
Please open Blender 3.0 and Blender 3.1 with the n-panel open and switch between boths windows. you should see that the n-panel text appears bigger/bolder in 3.1.

Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Needs Information from Developers.Mar 10 2022, 5:17 AM
Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) added a project: User Interface.
Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) added a subscriber: Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123).

Hi, Thanks for the report. I can confirm.
Not sure if change was intentional or came with some other improvements.
I'd like to know from developers if it's worth fixing this (Not very critical issue I think)

Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 10 2022, 5:19 AM
Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.EditedMar 10 2022, 9:19 AM

@Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123)

Thank you for confirming.

I agree with you that this may be not a super high critical bug, but I think it should be fixed.

If you have a lot of addons in the n-panel, space is very valuable and this bug makes the space issue even more worse.

Of course, it would be better if we would get a solution which fixes the space issue for the n-tab in general (like change the panel text to icons and make the n-tab area scrollable), but I see discussions since years about this topic and there is still no solution how to improve the n-tab ui. And I think it's more realistic that we get the n-tab font size/weight reverted as a general n-tab revise ;)

Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) added a subscriber: Harley Acheson (harley).Mar 10 2022, 2:25 PM

Not bisected but suspicious commit is rB73047c69ea80: BLF: Use Floats for Font Point Sizes
@Harley Acheson (harley) hi, can you look at this?

Changed between 60b8eb30bbb5 - 7e82c840b7a4

Harley Acheson (harley) added a comment.Mar 11 2022, 4:18 PM

@Harley Acheson (harley) hi, can you look at this?

Yes, will do.

Harley Acheson (harley) closed this task as Resolved by committing rBb959f603da45: Fix T96267: Sidebar Tab Font Size Correction.Mar 14 2022, 1:09 AM
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Harley Acheson (harley) added a commit: rBb959f603da45: Fix T96267: Sidebar Tab Font Size Correction.
Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) mentioned this in T96516: The tool shelf is Crazy.Mar 16 2022, 11:19 AM
Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.Apr 1 2022, 10:52 PM

@Harley Acheson (harley)
Still broken in Blender 3.1.2

Harley Acheson (harley) added a comment.Apr 1 2022, 11:41 PM

@Rincewind (Rincewind3D) - Still broken in Blender 3.1.2

Yes, that is expected. This complaint was on March 9 and I committed that fix on Marth 13, all within the Bcon1 release cycle of 3.2.

Had this complaint come in between October 27th 2021 and mid-February, I could have gotten this fix into 3.1. But it was in "bug-fixing only" status from January 28th until March 2. I wouldn't consider this important enough to backport to the 3.1.x corrective release(s).

Rincewind (Rincewind3D) added a comment.Apr 1 2022, 11:43 PM

Ah okay, thanks for clarification. So we will wait for 3.2.

However, thank you for fixing it.

Harley Acheson (harley) added a comment.Apr 1 2022, 11:47 PM

@Rincewind (Rincewind3D) - However, thank you for fixing it.

No worries. Thank you for reporting the issue.