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From: Stanimir S. <s7...@ne...> - 2020-09-07 15:22:25
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Hi all. I've been working on providing hires icons for SQuirreL SQL for use on hidpi screens for sometime now. Gerd has been kind to produce and host an experimental build showcasing the changes: - https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel-sql/files/experimental/hires_icons/ The effect of this is only seen on hidpi screens using Java 9+ (Java 8 is generally not hidpi-aware). I would like to find out whether people find useful the way icons are painted on hidpi screens with this experimental build. Personally I find the improvement essential for non-integral scale factor screens, f.e. 1.25 (125%), 1.5 (150%), 1.75 (175%). See some screenshots for comparison: - Screen scaling 125% original: https://i.imgur.com/R65Vq4Q.png - Screen scaling 125% hires icons: https://i.imgur.com/k3yj336.png - Screen scaling 150% original: https://i.imgur.com/n7F06M7.png - Screen scaling 150% hires icons: https://i.imgur.com/BWaD0mP.png - Screen scaling 200% original: https://i.imgur.com/X569kdU.png - Screen scaling 200% hires icons: https://i.imgur.com/goyCLCE.png but it would be best if you could try out the experimental build and provide feedback to this thread. Hope you like it. --- Here are some technical details. The hires icon variants are produced from the original ones using 2xBRZ: - https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbrz This provides some very nice scaled up variants – sharp with preserved detail as much as there could be. For non-integral scale factor monitors, the 2x variants are dynamically smoothly scaled (down) to the target resolution. This produces much better result than smoothly (bicubic interpolation) scaling up the original variants. For even more details one could check out the various incarnations of my attempts at this so far: - https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrel-sql/git/merge-requests/50 - https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrel-sql/git/merge-requests/52 - https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrel-sql/git/merge-requests/55 - https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrel-sql/git/merge-requests/57 -- Stanimir |
