Am 12.01.2013 um 02:22 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@princeton.edu>:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Julian Kolm <julian.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I think it is a real pity that this issue is dormant at the moment. It >> really makes lyx almost impossible to use for writing long text and that is >> the major use case after all. Since the number of people who will be >> affected by this is bound to rise a fix would really be appreciated. > > Good point. But unfortunately there are only one or two Mac developers > around here, and I'm not even sure they have the hardware to test the > retina display. I have a Mac with retina display. That's not the problem. IMHO, the problem is the drawing concept of LyX. To speed up the drawing of text LyX is using a pixmap cache for the text. Therefor the information is passed to the render mechanism as an image. I didn't find the time to debug this and locate the point where to solve this. I tried to simply disable the pixmap cache but without success so far. But there are other related problems as well. One prerequisite for the whole retina business is the use of the Cocoa API. I tried to switch to Qt-Cocoa but got the first complaints already. Dragon dictate is not working (don't know why) and the menu bar is weird (as reported by Anna). I cannot do much about this at the moment. I have a big project at work to do and not much spare time. Stephan > This asymmetry between many users and only a couple of developers > makes me wonder if this situation is good for a sponsorship. If > everyone donated a little, maybe it would make it more worthwhile to > the developer (or at least show the developer that some people care > and are happy to help contribute). I have no idea how much work would > be required for this or if any developer would want to spend their > free time working on it. See http://www.lyx.org/Donate for past > sponsors. > > Best, > > Scott
