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Retina display support

Retina display support

Posted Jan 10, 2013 10:36 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Retina display support by Trelane
Parent article: Firefox 18 is now available

What we're looking for is a system setting that tells us exactly how much to scale by default. Just guessing based on the characteristics of the screen as reported by xrandr isn't enough information to ensure that, for example, our standard UI controls are the same size as the controls in other applications.


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Retina display support

Posted Jan 11, 2013 1:09 UTC (Fri) by FedericoMenaQuintero (guest, #81416) [Link]

GTK+ doesn't have a special API for high-DPI devices yet. So, for now, don't do anything special - use a scale of 1.

(Your controls *will* be the same size as those in other applications, because you are using the same toolkit.)

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