From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>,
slippycheeze@google.com, cpitclaudel@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to scale fringe-bitmaps for high-DPI displays?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:32:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftrgb0ax.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7houwlm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:32:21 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:33:33 +0700
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>,
>> emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> * Migrate everything to SVG. Teach developers SVG is good, bitmaps are
>> bad. Package developer provides a single vector image. Failure mode:
>> developer is on a high DPI screen, makes a high-detail image, low DPI
>> users complain “image is blurry”.
>
> The failure mode that bothers me much more is that Emacs without SVG
> support will be unable to show the standard fringe indicators.
>
> In general, having the basic Emacs functionality depend on image
> libraries is a non-starter, IMO.
What would be the issue in having this support be conditional if it is
otherwise the best solution?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 14:55 What is the proper way to scale fringe-bitmaps for high-DPI displays? Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-20 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 19:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-20 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 20:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-20 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 21:17 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 11:43 ` Daniel Pittman
2019-03-21 13:33 ` Yuri Khan
2019-03-21 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 17:32 ` Alex [this message]
2019-03-21 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 17:38 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 17:40 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-20 19:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 15:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-03-21 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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