Looks like they made it worse. I have 150% UI scale and VLC 3.0 has gigantic buttons even though I don't have a touchscreen. Honestly, 2.x was better.

I think the idea is that it does it automatically so 150% is unnecessary.

Turn down the scale?

I have 125% UI scale and VLC also shows its buttons too big.

File a bug.

Good point.

there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.

> there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.

I personally love the rather small text and thus the giant amount of screen estate on my 27 inch 4K screen on Windows. But other people might have different preferences or visual acuity.

text size is easy enough to change; i do love how it renders on a 4K display though.

im really talking about dpi scaling though. there are still a fair amount of apps I use frequently that don't do a good job. the recent qbittorrent update looks horrible for me. some electron apps have awkward proportions but are still usable.

I have a 28" 4K display (~150% UI scale), the vast majority of apps on Windows look perfect. Zero pain points.

One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.

How is it a pain point? It's literally a preference designed to work with HiDPI displays. And it was set to 150% automatically (because EDID contains info about the monitor's physical size).

100% on 28" looks tiny.

Genuinely curious—so non-4k high-DPI displays work fine then?

In my experience, yes. I tried an Dell XPS 15 for a few weeks and the 4K pain points were evident with apps like Audacity, Photoshop, and VLC. I ended up learning more about Apple's high-DPI approach:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-f...

Laptops aside I've read that using a large enough display, at least 32", helps work around the Windows scaling issues. I haven't tried this yet.