Icon-theme-spec update for scaled icons

[Vincent Gerris]

I assume this is for MacBook (pro) retina screens and Google's Chromebook?
Could you say something about the changes to wayland?
I am running Xquartz to run X11 apps on OS X and it looks pretty
crappy now on a retina screen.
I read on some X11 mailing list they wil not fix it.
If wayland does fix it, perhaps I can point the devs to the code and
hope they can do anything with it.
If you need testers for your changes, just let me know.

Kind regards,
Vincent

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
> I've been working on adding support for HiDPI screens. Part of it has
> landed in wayland already, some is work-in-progress in Gtk+. Generally
> how this work is that on very high resolution monitors we "scale" the UI
> so that code works in the old "low dpi" pixels, but we then render it
> with a scaling factor.
>
> For icons we can't just scale as that would not look very nice, so
> instead we need to supply alternative higher resolution data. Things
> kind of work already, like you can pick 96x96 icons when rendering 48x48
> icons at scale 2. However, in many cases the larger icons have a lot
> more detail that don't really look very well when rendering at the
> higher scale. For instance some sort icons have text in them which is
> very hard to read, or borders become really thin.
>
> So, attached to the mail is a patch to the icon theme spec that adds a
> "Scale" property to the icon directories. With this one could have icons
> for size "48" in both scale 1 and 2.
>
>
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