Re: [lmi] Showing better icons in high DPI

[Greg Chicares]

On 2022-02-22 02:41, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:06:45 +0000 Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> GC> IOW, I think the "original" icons, which were apparently
> GC> just a 2:1 zoom, mapping each 1x1 pixel to a 4x4 superpixel,
> GC> are less unobjectionable than magnifications that make them
> GC> fuzzy as in "mth" and "nth". Thus, can we easily have icons
> GC> exactly as in "1st" == lmi_orig.png, along with DPI-aware
> GC> text as in "2nd" == lmi_dpi_aware.png?
> 
>  We can and I dutifully attach a screenshot of the new look of the icons
> scaled by wx

That's beautiful--just like a retro game, which remains
perfectly playable even if its graphic style has gone
out of fashion.

>  Unfortunately there is still another issue, which is visible when you look
> at the whole toolbar, which is why the latest screenshot shows a bigger
> part of it: the separators are almost unnoticeable at 200% scaling, as the
> native control doesn't seem to scale them correctly, and so they're only
> slightly bigger than regular toolbar buttons padding. I tried to find some
> way to work around this, but unsuccessfully, so I think we'll just have to
> live with this.

It's as though we strove for an em space between
groups, but got an en space. This does not impair
usabililty at all.

>  Please let me know if you see anything else wrong with these icons,

They're timeless and perfect.