Ahh… yes, OSX does its own upscale (my icon scale is set to 100%).
> On 20 Mar 2019, at 13:55, John Beard <john.j.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > This should apply to icons which are upscaled using the preferences (I set > 200% to get that result). How big are they on your screen? Or maybe OSX does > its own upscale? > > Cheers, > > John > > On 20 March 2019 13:46:07 GMT, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: > Hi John, > > Is there something I need to do to turn this on? I applied your patch, but > the icons look identical to the way they did before. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > > On 20 Mar 2019, at 10:51, John Beard <john.j.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > Moving off-topic from the module icons, can you have a quick check on > retina with the following patch to use nearest-neighbour up-scaling > rather than bilinear? > > I have no way to check on a real Retina/hiDPI display so I can't tell > if this is better or not. It keeps existing sharp edges. It looks > slightly less smooth on existing blurry areas (because it's basically > making all pixels 2x2, so it's not actually using the hiDPI). I see it > produces a lot fewer artifacts around curved lines, e.g. the redraw > arrow, which you expect from the bilinear algorithm. > > Images attached for reference. > > Cheers, > > John > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:22 PM John Beard <john.j.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > Presumably for Retina, and other hiDPI displays, we should either be > rendering a 2x resolution icon set or we should load them as SVG in the first > place rather than doing a bilinear upscale (which will look pretty bad for > icons that start out aligned nicely). > > IIRC the current upscale method was a stop gap for v5. > > Cheers, > > John > > On 19 March 2019 20:14:12 GMT, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: > > The blurry ones actually look better on a Retina display, but I’m OK with the > others if they look better everywhere else. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > > On 19 Mar 2019, at 19:54, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Whew! I was starting worry about my vision there for minute :) > > On 3/19/2019 3:52 PM, John Beard wrote: > > D'oh, yes! Sorry, new ones on the right, I changed it and didn't > change the text. > > Cheers, > > John > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey John, > > Are you sure the new icons aren't on the right? The ones on the left > look blurry to me. Either may eyes are totally gone or the icons on the > right are the aligned ones. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 3/19/2019 3:43 PM, John Beard wrote: > > Hi, > > I plan to pixel align the module icons in Pcbnew, as they are > currently blurry (and not even consistently blurry) - they're probably > the worst offenders left for blurriness. Getting these aligned at 26px > will be a good step towards hiDPI-aware scalable icons, as they will > also be aligned at 2x resolution. > > However, due to a quirk of the number 26, it's impossible to have the > current fat-ish pins, keep the pins and module centred in the icon, > and have 3 pins to a side, and keep them all pixel aligned (which is > why even the most-sharp current icon has blurry middle pins). So the > pins are now a bit skinnier. Hence a quick check that these icons are > acceptable. > > Comparison image attached (new icons on left). I haven't changed any > metaphors or the pin colours. > > Cheers, > > John > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > <0001-UI-Use-nearest-neighbour-rescaling-for-icons.patch><icon_2x_bilinear.png><icon_2x_nearest.png> >
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