[Bug]: Small Nautilus icons in GNOME 43 with High DPI scale factor
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Bug description
Running the Nextcloud desktop client on Arch Linux under GNOME 43 with a high DPI monitor and 175% scaling factor. The sync icons in the Nautilus file manager are very small. (see attached screenshot)

Steps to reproduce
- Install the nextcloud-client and python-nautilus packages on Arch Linux running GNOME 43.
- On a high DPI display, set the display scaling factor to 175% in GNOME Settings
- Run Nextcloud and sync
- Open the GNOME file manager (nautilus) and navigate to the Nextcloud folder
- Observe small sync icons on files and folders
Expected behavior
Sync icons are a reasonable size
Which files are affected by this bug
N/A
Operating system
Linux
Which version of the operating system you are running.
Arch Linux
Package
Distro package manager
Nextcloud Server version
25.0.1
Nextcloud Desktop Client version
1.6.1
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
Fresh desktop client install
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
Encryption is Disabled
Are you using an external user-backend?
- [X] Default internal user-backend
- [ ] LDAP/ Active Directory
- [ ] SSO - SAML
- [ ] Other
Nextcloud Server logs
No response
Additional info
No response
Hi, I have the same problem, but my scale factor is at 100%
OS: Fedora 37 DE: Gnome 43.0
Nextcloud client: 3.6.1 Nextcloud server: 24.0.7 UI language: French

I also experience this issue, hope this insight is helpful to someone.
Fedora 37 GNOME 43.1/Nautilus 43 Wayland
I have two monitors. My primary monitor is scaled to 1920x1080@100%, and the other is scaled to 2256x1504@%150.
Here are my findings:
- Changing scaling settings does not affect sync status icon size.
- The icons are also noticeably smaller on my second monitor (2256x1504@%150).
- Changing the size of the thumbnail icons in nautilus does not seem to change the size of the sync status icons.
- The sync status icons only appear to be a reasonable size on my primary monitor (1920x1080@100%) at the lowest possible thumbnail icon size in nautilus.
- This is not an issue with nautilus 43, icons representing files which are symlinks, shared over network, etc. do not have the same issue
If I find the time to look into the native scaling implementation used for symlink icons and such, I will, But, if anyone else decides to look into this issue, that's where I would start.

I don't think this is a nextcloud issue as I have the same issue with other overlay icons like disks. It looks more like a gnome 43/nautilus 43 bug. I didn't have these issues before updating to gnome 43.

Same here.
Manjaro with Gnome 43.2

Same issue on Fedora 38.
This is the result of icons generated out of shell_integration/icons/<size>/oC_xxx.png
Using icons from shell_integration/icons/nopadding will fix this issue
Comparison:
shell_integration/icons/16x16/oC_ok.png
shell_integration/icons/nopadding/ok.iconset/icon_16x16.png![]()
FYI: same issue if using e.g. Papirus icon theme. I had to center and resize the emblems/Nextcoud_xxx.svg files.
UPDATE: mixed up the path. fixed
@nextcloud/designers
Not sure what designers should do here? Of coures theicons should be well visible...
Not sure what designers should do here?
Actually nothing :)
In this particular case the designers job is done. The icons are already present at shell_integration/icons/nopadding. The task at hand is to figure out how to use those instead of the padded ones.
closing as this is a duplicate of #5133