Problem
Maka's Appearance settings only expose theme and palette today — there is no way to change font size. The renderer's type scale is fixed at base: 14 (makaTheme.ts), and both xterm.js terminals hardcode fontSize: 12 (session-terminal-panel.tsx, runtime-host-ssh-terminal-dialog.tsx).
As a result:
- Users on large / high-DPI displays, or with accessibility needs, cannot enlarge the transcript and UI without resorting to OS-level display scaling (which is blunt and affects every app).
- The embedded terminal text is stuck at 12px with no in-app control.
- There is a native menu
zoomIn/zoomOut, but it does not persist and is not reflected anywhere in Settings.
Peer tools expose this: Codex Desktop has UI Font size + Code Font size in its Appearance panel. (Terminal-only TUIs like the Codex/opencode CLI defer to the terminal emulator — but Maka is an Electron app and owns its own DOM, so it can and should offer this in-app.)
Desired outcome
Two font-size controls in the Appearance settings page, persisted under appearance (already client-owned) and applied at startup without a flash:
- UI font size — a uniform scale hook (root font-size /
--maka-font-scale). Because every --font-size-* token is rem and the root is deliberately kept at 16px, one scale multiplier grows text, icons and rem-based spacing together (like browser zoom). This is the clean, intended hook — and explicitly not a re-introduction of the old html { font-size } density hack that was removed for silently shrinking the icon set.
- Code / terminal font size — feeds the two
new Terminal({ fontSize }) sites (with a FitAddon refit + PTY resize on change) and code-block text.
Both values clamped to a sane range so an extreme value can't render the UI unusable.
Alternatives or workarounds
- OS display scaling — works but is global and coarse.
- Native menu Cmd/Ctrl +/- zoom — already present, but ephemeral (not persisted, not synced to a setting).
- Manually editing
settings.json — no such field exists yet.
Notes — pitfalls to avoid (observed in Codex Desktop)
- Clamp the range (Codex could be set to 300 and became unusable, non-recoverable from the UI).
- Keep UI vs code/terminal as separate knobs (Codex ties chat↔UI and terminal↔code together, so you can't tune them independently).
- Make the keyboard shortcut change the persisted setting, not just an ephemeral window zoom.
Problem
Maka's Appearance settings only expose theme and palette today — there is no way to change font size. The renderer's type scale is fixed at
base: 14(makaTheme.ts), and both xterm.js terminals hardcodefontSize: 12(session-terminal-panel.tsx,runtime-host-ssh-terminal-dialog.tsx).As a result:
zoomIn/zoomOut, but it does not persist and is not reflected anywhere in Settings.Peer tools expose this: Codex Desktop has UI Font size + Code Font size in its Appearance panel. (Terminal-only TUIs like the Codex/opencode CLI defer to the terminal emulator — but Maka is an Electron app and owns its own DOM, so it can and should offer this in-app.)
Desired outcome
Two font-size controls in the Appearance settings page, persisted under
appearance(already client-owned) and applied at startup without a flash:--maka-font-scale). Because every--font-size-*token isremand the root is deliberately kept at 16px, one scale multiplier grows text, icons and rem-based spacing together (like browser zoom). This is the clean, intended hook — and explicitly not a re-introduction of the oldhtml { font-size }density hack that was removed for silently shrinking the icon set.new Terminal({ fontSize })sites (with aFitAddonrefit + PTY resize on change) and code-block text.Both values clamped to a sane range so an extreme value can't render the UI unusable.
Alternatives or workarounds
settings.json— no such field exists yet.Notes — pitfalls to avoid (observed in Codex Desktop)