From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display scaling? Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:50:21 +0200 Message-ID: <834k5qh7pu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877danm1ds.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <877danm1ds.fsf@yahoo.com> <83o83yhcxt.fsf@gnu.org> <8735lamyad.fsf@yahoo.com> <838rv2hba4.fsf@gnu.org> <87y232liu4.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32917"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 15:52:48 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nCjfE-0008RU-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:52:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56764 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCjfD-0006tq-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCjdE-0005wo-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=33534 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCjdE-0004Vu-L4; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:50:44 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=d4f/s5hld8nbRn+N00y8tA+FV2yYTZZRROjWrTAMaDY=; b=TxkMhdxAb/OP 8APK1W2XzABtQ8Ng7IHWq6m4BRHsKhN2FvVOJZ2C+4uZt05iDURTuoE2FMFCfct0xM0e9BgGxvJ6r vu8/zY8l/zaV0AgXz/fUfRwM7gAsNs+qVWZPOSHclq1cdRIiFWmiA5wsYaJ/ZFXJECeGys5IpykFB uanH2pPUGf561lAJeqgaiCLeTDIiYCtjcfTxCYrqSKOZPQ6UCcblRs0/iRtkEE1WlDdk16dik+ksR iawx9bUCOT25iUZUEiR/figUpSdkfggkfxOcOT2ZziIRF1l6k5DfTCcBVnNbus+WlGihoZJX8CUYV 8GCS/CGMwyOYNsm4s8bMZA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2354 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCjd3-0003w4-21; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:50:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y232liu4.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:36:35 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285429 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:36:35 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > But bitmap images don't scale well, they look ugly (pixelated) after > > scaling. > > We could introduce higher-resolution (and perhaps even colourful) fringe > bitmaps after the scaling feature is finished, but I think the priority > right now is to make the fringes at least comfortably visible on such > monitors. >From past discussions, the initial solution you propose will be considered as bug by users. In the past we discussed only 2 resolutions, in which case providing another set of fringe bitmaps sounds plausible. But you seem to be talking about supporting any arbitrary scale, not just the double one of HiDpi displays, and that calls for a different implementation that we should IMO think over up front.