Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

Norbert Thiebaud nthiebaud at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 01:17:15 PDT 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Keith Curtis <keithcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Keith Curtis <keithcu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Doubling bitmaps is a "hack" but since bigger bitmaps don't exist, it
>>> is better than doing nothing.
>>
>> The problem is that mac, in compatibility mode, already auto-double..
>> so we end-up with a quadrupling
>> of the bitmap, which mean you in the end only see a quarter of the
>> intended icon.
>
> Have you made a build with it turned back on? I ask because it doesn't
> make sense the OS would return DPI != 96 while in auto-doubling mode.
> That would seemingly break the backward compatibility support the Mac
> is trying to achieve.

a picture is worth a 1000 words
_with_ the #ifdef MACOSX removed and _without_ --enable-retina (I could
take a snapshot of the Info page of the app that show the 'open in
low-resolution' checked and grey-ed out...)


[image: Inline image 1]
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