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 >> >&g

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

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 im

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

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

Retina support on OS X (sponsoring?)

2015-02-27 Thread Maximilian Proppert
understanding is, that retina support requires QT5 which in return is foreseen for LyX 2.2. Unfortunately, we were not able to find any information on the estimated release timeframe. We would greatly appreciate some more detailed information on the status quo of retina support and we would also

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 num

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 >>

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

Retina support

2014-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
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? 2. Despite some screen font blurriness up

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

Retina Support

2012-12-13 Thread Karan Girotra
Hey, Are there any plans to provide retina display support for LyX? What exactly does it entail? Karan

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
aracter after >> the other isn't good for retina support. I think the font cache >> is to blame here. The text rendering of the Qt-dialogs is ok. > > Painting character-by-character also produces other problems, e.g. support > for > proper ligature drawing (e.g. the M

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

Re: Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 28.10.2012 um 12:27 schrieb Lars Gullik Bjønnes <lar...@gullik.org>: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 al

Retina support on Mac

2012-10-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
What would having retina support on Mac entail for LyX? I just got a request for that (together with a donation). -- Lgb