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Re: What is the proper way to scale fringe-bitmaps for high-DPI displays


From: Clément Pit-Claudel
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to scale fringe-bitmaps for high-DPI displays?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:38:45 -0400
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On 2019-03-21 10:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:33:33 +0700
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>, 
>>      emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>>
>> * Migrate everything to SVG. Teach developers SVG is good, bitmaps are
>> bad. Package developer provides a single vector image. Failure mode:
>> developer is on a high DPI screen, makes a high-detail image, low DPI
>> users complain “image is blurry”.
>
> The failure mode that bothers me much more is that Emacs without SVG
> support will be unable to show the standard fringe indicators.

I was expecting something like the toolbars images, where the package author 
would provide both an SVG and a bitmap, and Emacs would use the latter when SVG 
support isn't available.



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