High Resolution Gnome

[Jason Simanek <jsimanek gmail com>]

Hi,

I just bought a Thinkpad T530 with a 15" 1920x1080 screen. I am running 
Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 12.04. So far, Gnome Shell seems to do pretty well 
with scaling to higher resolution screens via the Gnome Tweak tool's 
“text-scaling factor” setting. Nice work!

However, obviously I am and will be running into other problems. The 
Mozilla apps do quite well aside from icons via the 
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx setting. Browsing the web is beautiful. Some 
graphics are plenty large thanks to the responsive web movement and 
Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro (curiously, the Apple website does not do 
well...).

My primary objective – for now: I would like to have (or create if 
needed) a mouse cursor theme that is either scalable or larger. I'm 
guessing that providing a theme with larger graphics is all that is 
necessary? Is the DMZ mouse theme part of Gnome? If that artwork is 
already in vector art it will be easy to adapt for my needs, but I would 
love to provide something useful for everybody, as screens of this and 
greater resolution will no doubt only become more common in the future.

I apologize if this has already been discussed in great detail. Your 
patience is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Jason Simanek