@Sven, If I understand you right, you want to know what library gtk is built with? I build gtk with the quartz backend for native OSX builds.
Hope that helps. Partha On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:16 AM, scl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20.05.13 at 08:23 AM Maurizio Loreti wrote: > >> [...] GIMP does not support my Retina high resolution display; >> > > window graphics and text appear jagged, and, while displaying > > the same picture on the iMac and the Macbook, the Retina picture > > appears to be lower quality. > >> >> It is a pity that this wonderful program, ported to the Mac with native >> graphics, does not support these displays. >> >> This is of course a request for an enhancement; will you plan to support >> high resolution displays in the near future? >> >> > Hi Maurizio, > > thank you for reporting this. > The Retina display problem is already known and there are two bugs in > our Bugtracker for this: > > Bug 682178-Offscreen windows render into low-resolution pixel space [1], > Bug 686454-Gimp Canvas Content Looks Distorted and Pixelated on Macbook > Pro Retina [2]. > > If you can provide more information on this, may it be observations, > technical information or whatever is constructive, your comments on > these Bugzilla bugs are welcome. > > The current state of development as I heard on IRC: one developer > already made bugfixes but found nobody with a Retina display to > test it. Perhaps we can create a new temporary development branch > in our Git repository for these bugfixes, get an OS X build from it > and somebody with a Retina display is willing to test (perhaps you?). > The quicker we find somebody, the quicker GIMP supports Retina displays. > > From a technical point of view the platform specific code for > rendering on OS X is in the underlying graphics library GDK or Cairo. > Can anybody clarify which is the right one in GTK2 and GTK3? > If we get stuck we should ask there to build the necessary foundations. > > Kind regards, > > Sven > > [1] > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=682178<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682178> > [2] > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=686454<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686454> > > ______________________________**_________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-**list<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list> > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
