A lot of this is due to a design culture that seems common around the Gnome project. Victims of this mimetic disease have caught on to the idea that 80% of usa

A lot of this is due to a design culture that seems common around the Gnome project. Victims of this mimetic disease have caught on to the idea that 80% of usage needs 20% of the features. This might well be true in a literal sense, but it ignores that 99% of the users need one or two items from the remaining 80% of the features and its just a different one or two items for each user. The result is something that isn't completely functional for all but a tiny portion of the user base. :( Workarounds exist to expand that somewhat, though they're often extremely poorly maintained. For example, I had a gnome3 using system that suddenly started insta-crashing anytime a GTK dialog was opened on it. I eventually had to blow away all its gconf to recover it. It turned out that at some point someone decided that 300% and 400% scaling had no purpose and caused issues because in some cases they messed up UI layout. They removed them and the removal was just shipped along with security & bugfix updates in fedora. The way it was removed caused instant crashing for people that previously had them enabled! I'm fixed now, though with the display at 200% I have difficulty reading it (It's a 4k TV that I need to read from a long distance away) ... but since I can't use gtk interface stuff on it at all now I guess I won't be opening any bugs on minor layout issues that might be caused by increased scaling. PROBLEM SOLVED :(