On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:37 PM, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Elad Alfassa
<elad(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Even after the GTK3 port is done, High-DPI and touch input support won't
be
> supported (at least, not anytime soon). How can we advertise high-dpi and
> touch input support as features of our product if our default web
browser,
> arguably the most important app for most users, doesn't support them?
This is not really true.
HIDPI works really well (I have a hidpi laptop here) just not out of
the box already. Firefox has a scale factor that you can set. It is
set to -1 by default it should just be
set to whatever the xsettings value is (which shouldn't be that hard to
do).
Allow me to answer your comment with three links, as you said it
"shouldn't be hard":
http://xkcd.com/1349/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975919
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060770
Also, high-dpi support is only one issue out of two I raised here, the
other is touch support, which is completely non-existent on Firefox on
Linux. I'd assume it would be a bit easier for upstream to implement it
when the Gtk3 port is ready, but like most issues I raised here it's a vast
amount of bugs which all depends on eachother getting fixed, while both
upstream and the Red Hat firefox team don't have enough resources to fix
any time soon by the looks of it.
My point in this thread is that Firefox should either be improved, or
replaced - the current situation is far from being ideal.
--
-Elad Alfassa.