On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 07:52:17 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/8/19 10:34 PM, David W. Jones wrote: > >> I'm planning to move to a 4K laptop. Would it be possible to use SVG >> fonts/graphics for layout? Or some way to set large font sizes? This whole >> antique "specify sizes in pixels" thing is getting pretty tedious, even on >> my present HD (1920x1080) setup. > >Rosegarden dates to a time when requiring a 1024x768 screen was a >controversial move. Getting as much out of possible out of minimal >screen real estate used to be the name of the game. > >I haven't put any thought into fonts yet. The way Rosegarden uses fonts >is pretty touchy and weird and full of legacy quirks, and getting it to >behave well with vector fonts will not be simple. > >What I have been thinking about is the icons. The horrible irony is >that when I spent some insane number of hours remaking all the icons a >few years ago, most of them were in a vector format before I committed >them as raster images. The problem we used to have was half pixeling. >This is hugely obvious on note stems, which want to be one straight >line. If we stored the icons as SVG and left it up to Qt to rasterize >them, they looked awful. That's why I manually diddled thousands upon >thousands of pixels. > >In the age of 4K, now we're looking at an entirely different set of >problems. I don't have a 4K monitor yet, but I do have a 4K TV, and the >writing is on the wall. This is going to be one of those things where >if we don't fix it, Rosegarden is going to fade into history. I >understand there are workarounds right now, but they probably look like >crap. > >I am thinking about this problem with the intent to roll my sleeves back >up and do some work on this in the relatively near future. I haven't >actually conducted any experiments yet, but I aim to do that sooner, >rather than later. I figured I would start by doing a new set of SVG >icons, and making sure they look decent on my standard 1920x1080 display. > >I should get thinking about fonts too. Everything should scale nicely. >The technology to do this is there, and we simply don't make use of it yet. > Welcome back - you never really went away did you? :) Oh, and I feel your pain! -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
