Re: HiDPI in Terminal.app

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Fred,


Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Thank you for your patch. I am sure it works but it does not address the 
> underlying issue. The real problem is that DPSshow ignores the current 
> transformation of the window and sets a mirrored identity matrix as the 
> transformation. This works well in some cases but is clearly wrong. We should 
> move ll application code away from this out dated interface. And I will have to 
> find a way to fix the behaviour, while keeping at least some of the differences 
> that DPSshow has to the regular text display code, e.g. not respecting any 
> rotations.

do you mean that DPSShow() is broken and you might fix it, but in long 
run we should rewrite TerminalView (and many other applications) not to 
youse DP functions?

Sounds a challenge for us, I'll seek your help.
Maybe the best would be to make a minor release of Terminal before doing 
such a major change.

Riccardo