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Native menus are incorrectly scaled on KDE Plasma 6.6 with Global Menu enabled #323814

Description

@mar-estg

Version: 1.126.0

OS:
Kubuntu 26.04
KDE Plasma 6.6.4
Wayland (also reproducible when forcing X11 via --ozone-platform=x11)

Issue:

When using:

"window.menuStyle": "native"

the context menus are rendered at a much larger scale than the rest of the VS Code UI.

The editor, tabs and explorer use one scale, while native context menus use a noticeably larger font and spacing.

If I change:

"window.menuStyle": "custom"

the scaling becomes correct immediately, but the KDE Global Menu no longer works.

Expected:
Native menus should have the same scale as the rest of the UI while still supporting KDE Global Menu.

Additional information:

  • Display scale: 100%
  • GTK theme: Breeze
  • Plasma theme: Breeze
  • No QT_SCALE_FACTOR or GDK_SCALE set
  • Reproduced with a clean VS Code profile (--user-data-dir)
  • Reproduced with both Wayland and X11

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