Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:

> 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.

It should be reasonably future-proof, since we can always add
higher-resolution fringe bitmaps later.

Scaling of display elements (such as face boxes, tool-bar margins and
bitmaps, and fringes) is something I'm working on, but progress is
limited since I don't have any HiDPI hardware to test on.