Moving this to the developer mailing list...

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:14:48AM +0200, Robert Helling wrote:
> > On 09.10.2015, at 08:13, Antoine Châlons <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Here's how I define "kind of ugly", on the attached screen shot the texts 
> > on Subsurface are blurry, to compare I put the GitHub desktop app.
> > Do you see the difference?
> > My "kind of ugly" comment was not that I don't like the icons or the 
> > layout, it's because it's all quite blurry.
> 
> 
> I don’t have a retina display myself, so I cannot check this. But a bit off 
> googling produced two resolutions:
> 
> According to http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mbp-retina-blurry-text/ 
> <http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mbp-retina-blurry-text/> you might try what is 
> written there as “Resolving resolution for Native Apps”, i.e. in Finder right 
> click on the subsurface icon and open the info and uncheck “Open in low 
> resolution”.
> 
> Alternatively, we could modify the Subsurface.app/Contents/Info.plist to 
> contain
> 
>         <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
>         <true/>
> 
> as suggested on https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36410 
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36410> . I don’t know enough about mac 
> packaging, so I do not include a patch for this. I tried to insert this entry 
> in packaging/macosx/Info.plist.in but this does not end up int the file 
> mentioned above. That file seems to be there from GTK times…

It is. The plist is now created on the fly.

> Could somebody with access to a retina display test this?

I did and it makes no difference. The "Open in Low Resolution" option is
still checked and grayed out...

This will require more research I'm afraid :-(

/D

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