On 30 Nov 2016, at 11:23, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
Adding this to the Dev user group - is there really no solution for this? I read a few old messages from 2012 about different fonts but nothing seemed to work from what I could see.
Has everyone just been putting up with the fuzziness and got used to it?
The majority of Pharo developers are on macOS, most of them with Retina screens. I know that we do have some problems in that area, but I personally consider the current situation acceptable.
This is a screenshot of my current work image (still Pharo 4) in actual size:
Is this (too) fuzzy for you ?
As a new Retina display user, I love the clarity in other apps and find it quite jarring in Pharo. I was going to do a brown bag session on Smalltalk with the current team I���m working with, however as they all have retina Macs, I think I may reconsider this as unless you love the language its another thing for people to throw stones at.
As Stephan mentions below, were Tobias��� changes not viable? Is there anything we can do to help get them safely in - or can I try it on an experimental branch?
Tim
On 29 Nov 2016, at 21:02, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
On 29/11/16 00:34, Tim Mackinnon wrote:
Or is this still the same issue that���s been hanging around for a long
time as its hard to easily fix?
Tobias Pape wrote some vm changes that solved the problem this summer, and they somehow interfered, so were reverted. I posted some pictures
on twitter 10/11-7 of it working with both Pharo & Squeak.
Stephan
Hi Guys - its been a while since I���ve had a chance to get back into some coding in Smalltalk, and took the plunge again with a new laptop and Pharo 5, however the screen is really blurry?
Doing a google search, I can see this same question raised back in 2012, but has there been no progress in this intervening years or has a workaround not been documented for google to find? Or has everyone just got used to it, and I need to hand in there...
I have tried using a different font - but not sure what constitutes a true-type font (are these the same as free-type mentioned in the Settings Browser?). Has anyone found a font that makes everything look crisp (I tried Helvetica but its only marginally better).
Or is this still the same issue that���s been hanging around for a long time as its hard to easily fix?
Tim