Scaling of root VisualElement is ignored

[ultradevel]

Description

If you set the Scale property for the root VisualElement of a MAUI application (no matter if shell or page), it has no effect.

Background

MAUI applications are rendered strangely large on Windows. They are about 1.5 times the size of the Mac application on the same screen.

To give the user the same experience on Windows and Mac, the Windows application must be scaled smaller (by a factor of 0.66).

Since each VisualElement has a Scale property, that seems to be the way to go.

However, unfortunately, the setting of Scale at the root VisualElement of the application is ignored.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a New .NET MAUI App from the template
2. Set the Scale property of the root VisualElement (the MainPage) to any factor, for example 0.67
3. Build and run the app

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/ultra133/ListTest.git

Version with bug

7.0 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS, Android, Windows, macOS

Affected platform versions

All

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

No response

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[homeyf]

Verified this issue with 17.7.0 Preview 1.0. Not repro on android with sample project.
https://github.com/ultra133/ListTest.git

Hi @ultra133. We have added the "s/try-latest-version" label to this issue, which indicates that we'd like you to try and reproduce this issue on the latest available public version. This can happen because we think that this issue was fixed in a version that has just been released, or the information provided by you indicates that you might be working with an older version.

You can install the latest version by installing the latest Visual Studio (Preview) with the .NET MAUI workload installed. If the issue still persists, please let us know with any additional details and ideally a reproduction project provided through a GitHub repository.

This issue will be closed automatically in 7 days if we do not hear back from you by then - please feel free to re-open it if you come back to this issue after that time.

[ultradevel]

I can verify that this is still an issue on the latest available tools and workloads (including preview).