Re: Patch to improve GUI editor on HiDPI displays

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El divendres, 27 d’abril de 2018, a les 0:49:33 EDT, John Swensen va escriure:

  
  > On Apr 25, 2018, at 11:16 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > Is there anyone who regularly builds the development version of Octave
  > for Windows or for macOS with a HiDPI / Retina display that can test the
  > attached patch for me?
  > 
  > I have seen some reports that the Octave GUI editor looks pixelated on
  > HiDPI displays. The attached patch is supposed to fix this. I have no
  > such hardware to test on (donations welcome), but the patch doesn't make
  > things any worse for me.
  > 
  > Can anyone test and confirm whether the patch improves the appearance of
  > the editor? Worse? No change?
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > 
  
  I don’t see a problem either on my MacOS with Homebrew. In fact, I don’t see 
any difference with and without the patch.
  
  John S.

It does make a difference in Linux, solving pixelated text in Octave's editor 
(at least) in KDE with hidpi screen scaled to a non-integer number. 

[We've already talked about this, but thought that it may be useful for giving 
some context to others...]

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