Note that eventually the problem will happen with PC anyway, as retina displays will certainly come to the PC as well...
Hmmm... Not a fan of retina myself. OS X doen't support BLU-RAY, which just goes to show it's only commercial considerations that drive Retina. It's not much of a feature afaics ?
Let's say it's the kind of "features" you can't go back from when you got addicted to it (Apple does that very well...). Retina display on the MAcbook is just amazing, and when you see normal screens after that you feel the pixels are killing your eyes. But it's not only "nice", it's also "useful" with applications dealing with video or photography.
Ok.
Buy me a Retina box and i'll test out XQuartz and make a package ;>
I've been buying,fixing and selling old intel macbook/pros on ebay. They've held their value well.
Note that eventually the problem will happen with PC anyway, as retina displays will certainly come to the PC as well...
Hmmm... Not a fan of retina myself. OS X doen't support BLU-RAY, which just goes to show it's only commercial considerations that drive Retina. It's not much of a feature afaics ?
Let's say it's the kind of "features" you can't go back from when you got addicted to it (Apple does that very well...). Retina display on the MacBook is just amazing, and when you see normal screens after that you feel the pixels are killing your eyes (pixels you never noticed before there were Retina screens...). But it's not only "nice", it's also "useful" with applications dealing with video or photography.
Are you becoming a pompous pixel ass? In a blog entitled "Beware the allure of Apple's Retina Displays" the author Brooke Crothers claims that is what Apple turned him into
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Note that eventually the problem will happen with PC anyway, as retina displays will certainly come to the PC as well...
Hmmm... Not a fan of retina myself. OS X doen't support BLU-RAY, which just goes to show it's only commercial considerations that drive Retina. It's not much of a feature afaics ?
Let's say it's the kind of "features" you can't go back from when you got addicted to it (Apple does that very well...). Retina display on the MacBook is just amazing, and when you see normal screens after that you feel the pixels are killing your eyes (pixels you never noticed before there were Retina screens...). But it's not only "nice", it's also "useful" with applications dealing with video or photography.
Are you becoming a pompous pixel ass? In a blog entitled "Beware the allure of Apple's Retina Displays" the author Brooke Crothers claims that is what Apple turned him into
Hahaha, quite possibly, Don. Still, when all computers will be equipped with such screens everybody will wonder how we could tolerate our older displays. For the moment, when you see an non-optimized application you can't help but noticing the difference (see my screenshot above).
I just found a -free- program, Retinizer, that turns any non-retina application into a retina one (at least for the fonts). It works spectacularly well with all the apps I tested (Lazarus, etc.), including... Scid Vs. PC.
As it is a permanent fix (I have no idea how it works), maybe you can retinize all your Mac builds with it before releasing them, Steven, until you make a genuinely retinized app?
Sounds worthwhile... but i have no test machine.
If someone (hint,hint) would like to prepare a ScidvsMac-4.9.retina.dmg
i will put it up and link to it.
Or maybe wait for a couple of months till i have time to make a point release and see if i can fix some of the docked mode breakages. When i go on hols (which is soon - yay!) i only have my macbook, so it should get some attention.
There's two major changes in this point release, and hopefully nothing too bad is happening.
1. Focus follow mouse works better. So keyboard bindings should be useable now. (Just make sure the mouse is over the main board). Actually - we are doing something not great , but OS X's [wm stackorder] is just broken afaics.
2. Docking mode works better. Previously, many widgets were borked in some unusual manor which seems due to OS X's broken event loop, and a simple superfluous [update] appears to fix it.
3. Oh yeah - i forgot to include the custom Tcl framework in 4.9.1... bad.
Still, when all computers will be equipped with such screens everybody will wonder how we could tolerate our older displays. For the moment, when you see an non-optimized application you can't help but noticing the difference (see my screenshot above).