Hi, On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:01:17 +0200 (CEST) "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I just decided to try darktable on a Mac Book Pro with retina display (I am > exploring the free alternatives to the rather expensive Adobe Lightroom). > > As for many other applications on the Retina displays there are some issues > due to the pixel scaling. Most of the interface looks great, but some > elements > show the "pixelated" effect due to pixel scaling. Unfortunately this affects > also the main canvas where the photo are displayed and this renders the > entire > software essentially unusable for me. screenshots would be nice, some people mention from time to time problems with high DPI, but few of them show how it looks exactly. > > After installing the latest release (1.4.2), I also pulled out the git repo > and build dark table from source on my machine (darktable 1.5+1718~gf7b7ed6). > > All dependencies have been installed through homebrew. > > This version shows up as XQuartz window and entering X11 fullscreen in high > resolution, the result is acceptable. Of course no pixelation, font size is > somewhat small but still readable: overall better than in the released > version > (if there's a trade-off I'd rather favour image quality over menu appearance). > > Issues with this are that I have to enter X11 fullscreen (XQuartz issue), and > most important I get a segfault 11 the second time I start dark table (after > rebooting it starts again). > > So here my questions: > - Is there some advance in the development in order to solve the problems > with > HiDPI displays? Some time ago one of the users suggested adding NSPrincipalClass -> NSApplication to Info.plist, which should have helped with retina support, but we never got any solid confirmation what changed after I did that. Also I think houz did some changes in git master which concern UI scaling according to DPI setting, but I never tested that on OS X. > - How do I properly build darktable from source on os x? See packaging/macosx/BUILD.txt. You have built gtk with X11 backend, I use native quartz backend, which makes more sense to me. > - Are there actually any developers testing/developing darktable on the rMBP? I'm the only developer with Mac, and I don't have retina display, so no. > - By chance, does anybody know if I can get full resolution in XQuartz also > in > rootless mode? I didn't even know that it has any modes other than rootless... How do you enter fullscreen mode? > > Thanks and best regards! > > Mauro > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > darktable-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
