[Bf-committers] RfE: High-DPI Support on Linux for Blender

[Brecht Van Lommel]

I don't mind having it as an option available to the user, but I would
consider that a workaround for a lack of platform support or a feature for
developer testing.

Is there already a Linux or Freedesktop standard for this kind of thing?
Last I checked no applications actually worked well with this screen on
Linux, all you can do is increase the font sizes which is not a proper
solution. If it is possible now we should use the system setting in Blender.

On Feb 23, 2014 10:12 PM, "Campbell Barton" <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is a bit of a problem, where anyone working on blender's UI who
> doesn't have access to a retina display can't easily test how blender
> will look (higher DPI isn't exactly the same thing).
>
> For testing the new tabs draw correctly at different pixelsize values,
> I used this patch on X11,
> http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/PIXELSIZE_SUPPORT_X11.diff
>
> Its handy since you can set to 4, and anything that fails to scale is
> very obvious.
>
> Not suggesting it should be committed, only useful for others testing
> and working on Blenders UI.
>
> Any reason not to expose pixelsize as a command line argument or
> user-preference?
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Paulo José Amaro <pauloup at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > If you can't read the screen, open this file with Blender and type ALT
+ P
> > http://www.pasteall.org/blend/27032
> >
> > Then you'll be able to read the screen. To make it permanent go to File
>
> > User Preferences > button  "Save User Settings" at the bottom of window.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org>
wrote:
> >
> >> File -> User Preferences
> >> Go to the "System" tab there, and increase the DPI.
> >>
> >> Am 23.02.2014 20:49, schrieb Jochen Schmitt:
> >> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 04:08:04PM +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Just set the DPI in user pref to very high.
> >> >> In mac retina we also draw lines then with 2 pixels, that's not
> >> supported yet.
> >> > Thank you for your answer. It may be nice, if you can explain me, how
> >> > I should do set settings when the font is so small that I can't read
> >> > the letters on the screen?
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards
> >> >
> >> > Jochen Schmitt
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