From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:23:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r171hi40.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfrhu6et.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> (message from Yuri D'Elia on Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:57:30 +0100)
> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:57:30 +0100
>
> I recently switched to a higher-resolution screen to basque in all the
> hidpi glory.
>
> And all is good. Pretty darn amazing for text rendering, in fact.
>
> Except for the fringe.
>
> Even at 16x16, these bitmaps are now indistinguishable from specks of
> dust. At least on lucid the bitmaps do not get upscaled by setting a
> larger fringe size.
>
> I suspect upscaling with nearest-neighbor would be a possibility for the
> moment, but it's the API surrounding the fixed bitmap sizes that doesn't
> look future-proof to me.
>
> I didn't think much of it at first, but it's while debugging with `gud'
> that I'm really struggling and realizing how useful the fringe is.
>
> Shouldn't we allow the fringe to be a single character instead of being
> a bitmap? With it's own family on graphical displays?
It could be a separate feature, but I don't think it should be the
solution for the problem you describe (which is a known problem). We
should be able to produce a decent display of fringe bitmaps on hidpi
terminals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-16 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-16 17:57 Bigger fringe bitmaps Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-16 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-17 0:31 ` Po Lu
2022-03-17 7:43 ` Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-17 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-17 8:34 ` Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-17 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-17 9:44 ` Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-17 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-17 21:21 ` Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-18 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-18 9:29 ` Yuri D'Elia
2022-03-18 14:52 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-18 15:31 ` tomas
2022-03-18 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-18 17:19 ` tomas
2022-03-18 23:14 ` Po Lu
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