Bug 493401 - [All Diagrams] Automatic resize on system font size hinders collaboration
Summary: [All Diagrams] Automatic resize on system font size hinders collaboration
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Papyrus
Classification: Modeling
Component: Diagram (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-05-11 05:20 EDT by Johan Van Noten CLA
Modified: 2016-06-16 04:14 EDT (History)
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Screenshot normal size (5.85 KB, image/png)
2016-05-11 05:20 EDT, Johan Van Noten CLA
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Screenshot with system font increased to 125% (8.09 KB, image/png)
2016-05-11 05:20 EDT, Johan Van Noten CLA
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Description Johan Van Noten CLA 2016-05-11 05:20:11 EDT
Created attachment 261634 [details]
Screenshot normal size

Windows allows users to configure default font sizes for 100%, 125% or 150% to accommodate new displays with higher resolution.

Unfortunately, this disturbes also Papyrus diagrams: it seems Papyrus is not only changing the font size, but also changes the dimensions of graphical elements accordingly. 

For team collaboration, this is annoying. It causes differences in visualization between different team members. Look at the two attached screen shots. They are from the same diagram, but on different computers. In this simple diagram, only the connector going down is affected, but for more complex diagrams, this really messes up the full layout. 

A proposed solution is not trivial:
* Of course it can be convenient for a user that a graphical element automatically adjusts its size when I am changing its name to a longer one.
* On the other hand, a diagram just changing because of a changing font size would probably not be appropriate. Whether this size is imposed by the Windows OS (as in this example) or adjusted through CSS (in which case I suppose the same resize would happen (I didn't test this).

What would you propose?
Comment 1 Johan Van Noten CLA 2016-05-11 05:20:47 EDT
Created attachment 261635 [details]
Screenshot with system font increased to 125%
Comment 2 Johan Van Noten CLA 2016-06-14 05:58:01 EDT
Based on contact with Vincent & Patrick, it seems that this depends on an issue in GMF. Could you:
* Confirm this bug
* Add the dependency on the precise GMF bug

Thanks,
Johan