Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-03-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Keeping in mind at least latest Ubuntu LTS seems not unreasonable to >> me, though. If we decide to go above this requirement, we shall >> incapacitate a good chunk of our user base. Right now Ubuntu Trusty >> 14.04 LTS

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-03-02 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Keeping in mind at least latest Ubuntu LTS seems not unreasonable to > me, though. If we decide to go above this requirement, we shall > incapacitate a good chunk of our user base. Right now Ubuntu Trusty > 14.04 LTS ships Qt5 5.2.1. If technically not too cumbersome, I wou

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-03-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Cyrille Artho wrote: >> >> Note that part of the problem is that for retina support we would >> require Qt 5. There are a few pending issues with LyX and Qt 5, as >> noted here: >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9215 >> >> And we keep finding more (two weeks ago, Ko

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-03-01 Thread Cyrille Artho
Note that part of the problem is that for retina support we would require Qt 5. There are a few pending issues with LyX and Qt 5, as noted here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9215 And we keep finding more (two weeks ago, Kornel found a bug due to Qt 5: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9412). I t

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2015 02:22 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 02/28/2015 07:35 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I cannot comment on retina support and on usefulness of sponsoring, although it might be useful for designing icons. Concerning performance,

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-02-28 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/28/2015 07:35 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > I cannot comment on retina support and on usefulness of sponsoring, although > it might be useful for designing icons. > > Concerning performance, it will get a good improvement on MacOS

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-02-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/28/2015 07:35 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I cannot comment on retina support and on usefulness of sponsoring, although it might be useful for designing icons. Concerning performance, it will get a good improvement on MacOS in 2.2. More performance can be achieved probably, but this i

Re: Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I cannot comment on retina support and on usefulness of sponsoring, although it might be useful for designing icons. Concerning performance, it will get a good improvement on MacOS in 2.2. More performance can be achieved probably, but this is not planned for 2.2 yet. Note that the main thing t

Re: 2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-02-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > wrote: > > As far as I am concerned, I'd just like to land the scroll-reloaded > branch > > ASAP. It will not improve any more without testing. > > > > Who has plans for 2.2 that have n

Re: Retina support

2015-01-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
Having installed LyX on a 5k iMac I can report that, even without retina support, LyX screen fonts still look quite good, especially if you crank the resolution up a notch from the default "2560x1440" to the next fixed option of "2880x1620" (ironic quotes because the number of actual pixels per

Re: 2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-01-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > As far as I am concerned, I'd just like to land the scroll-reloaded branch > ASAP. It will not improve any more without testing. > > Who has plans for 2.2 that have not been executed yet? > What about the other GSoC projects? What are t

Re: 2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-01-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 04/01/2015 15:00, Stephan Witt a écrit : >> >> Is it possible to make a 2.2 release in a foreseeable future? > > > As far as I am concerned, I'd just like to land the scroll-reloaded branch > ASAP. It will not improve any more withou

Re: 2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-01-06 Thread Georg Baum
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2015-01-06 19:58 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > >> Who has plans for 2.2 that have not been executed yet? >> > > I have nothing that cannot wait. > > Python 3 support would be good to have. (Biblatex as well, but that seems > to be a too big task). Yes, python 3

Re: 2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-01-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-01-06 19:58 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > Who has plans for 2.2 that have not been executed yet? > I have nothing that cannot wait. Python 3 support would be good to have. (Biblatex as well, but that seems to be a too big task). Jürgen > > JMarc > >

2.2 (was: Re: Retina support)

2015-01-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/01/2015 15:00, Stephan Witt a écrit : Is it possible to make a 2.2 release in a foreseeable future? As far as I am concerned, I'd just like to land the scroll-reloaded branch ASAP. It will not improve any more without testing. Who has plans for 2.2 that have not been executed yet? JMa

Re: Retina support

2015-01-04 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 27.12.2014 um 05:26 schrieb Richard Heck : > On 12/26/2014 06:45 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> LyX folk: >> >> I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. >> >> 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in >> development for LyX. Does anyone have

Re: Retina support

2014-12-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 12/26/2014 06:45 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for such support in an OS X binary

Re: Retina Support

2012-12-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Karan Girotra wrote: > Hey, > > Are there any plans to provide retina display support for LyX? What exactly > does it entail? See the following links: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=134892838821370&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=134895067903019&w=2 http://w

Re: Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Stephan Witt wrote: > I don't know this yet. But for sure you need an icon set with high > resolution Or a vector format (svg). Jürgen

Re: Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 28.10.2012 um 14:00 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller : > Stephan Witt wrote: >> The drawing of the main work area is the problem and I'm not sure >> if this is easy to fix. I already tried to understand the problem >> an evening and it looks like the painting of one character after >> the other isn't

Re: Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Stephan Witt wrote: > The drawing of the main work area is the problem and I'm not sure > if this is easy to fix. I already tried to understand the problem > an evening and it looks like the painting of one character after > the other isn't good for retina support. I think the font cache > is to bl

Re: Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 28.10.2012 um 12:27 schrieb Lars Gullik Bjønnes :What would having retina support on Mac entail for LyX?Basic support is already included now (and back-ported for 2.0.5).The drawing of the main work area is the problem and I'm not sureif this is easy to fix. I already tried to