[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138122] LibreOffice font blurry on MacBook Pro's Internal HiDPI Retina Display running macOS Big Sur 11.0.1

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122

--- Comment #41 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to lupurus from comment #39)
> The app now started in the dark mode, so I know, that it uses the new SDK.
> There are no changes, the text is still blurred. I will take a closer look
> to the text drawing methods, because I also figured out, that the text in a
> Combobox for example is blurred as well. But I will need a lot of time to
> get an overview, how all this drawing works (maybe in the end I can at least
> help improving the dark mode :))

As developer time equals the value of gold, it's ideally spend wisely.
Solving this particular problem maybe not the best investment. Even if this
would solve the issue here. Or because it's to do research on this specific
issue 

I still expect/ assume/ speculate that they blurry font would be solved with
Skia macOS implementation. [non-developer assessment] And it would likely also
solve the low frame rate issue on HiDPI screens. Leo Wang did some nice
optimization but still not it. 

There also repainting issue with images within table (under MacOS) not present
anymore under Windows with Skia (does exist with GDI) and technically caused by
different commit. However if back-ends are aligned we haven't to invent the
wheel over and over. And risk of of they MacOS backend becoming broken again,
again wheres it solved at the Skia level. 
Also it would also introduce Vulkan support (they MacOS OpenGL implementation
probably never existed, except a setting in they dialog which didn't work at
all.

And Apple has a tendency to change things on a quite regular basis. So prefer
that they Skia developers deal with that :-)

So Skia is kind of holy grail generally speaking, from my perspective. I'm
happy if someone fixes this specific issue here, if that's within his/her
capability and implementing Skia not. But else I tend to prefer a Skia route at
the cost of this being longer around. Especially because everything still kind
of fresh in the memory of the people (or should say single developer) involved
implementing Skia for Windows (and Linux). 
See also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137468#c18

It's maybe not needed that one person needs to do all the work him/herself.
Simply starting preparations would already helpful, I think. More question of
coordination and such, which should be done at they DEV chat.

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