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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Retina display support
From:       Richard Heck <rgheck () comcast ! net>
Date:       2012-06-18 12:43:55
Message-ID: 4FDF228B.4020903 () comcast ! net
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On 06/18/2012 03:31 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2012-06-17, kjkk wrote:
>> Thank you for the replay.
>> Apple has just released a new 15" laptop called
>> "macbook pro with retina display".
>> His screen has a resolution of 2880x1800,
>> four times the pixels of a standard 1440x900 display.
>> To take full advantage of it every software has to
>> support natively that resolution. It's only a scaling issue.
> So, "retina" is just an advertising buzzword for high resolution. Nothing
> special to mimic the optical processing done in retina nerve cells.
>
>> If a software is not "retina" ready it is pixel-doubled
>> by OS X but, obviously, it is not the best solution.
> Scaling LyX to support 2880x1800 is not the problem. However, problems
> might arise if the OS expects some special code to advertise itself as
> "retina ready". I assume the right place for this kind of special code is
> the QT library. Maybe it already supports it?
As someone mentioned, hi-rez (meaning, larger) icons would be good, but 
otherwise such issues
as there are do seem like Qt issues. There's already been some discussion:
     http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/4477
but there's probably more to come.

Richard

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