Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP development- What's the point?

[Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth broggs org>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 09:24:50AM -0400, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Marius Kjeldahl <marius kjeldahl gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I've waited years for Gimp and Inkscape to support Macs, but sadly they
> > still don't. They barely "run", but they aren't usable. I wrote a blog post
> > with the details:
> >
> > https://medium.com/@kjeldahl/gimp-and-inkscape-on-retina-
> > macs-do-not-work-9601c3052e86#.i3ys9rmhn
> >
> > So to your question, what's the point?
>
> Can you tell me what's missing in the Mac GIMP support? I've been providing
> Mac (and WIndows) builds for a long time and continuing to so.

If you read his blog, he calls it out pretty explicitly (I read it because, I've been using inkscape heavily 
on Mac the last week or so).  

tl;dr
GTK2 on a retina display sucks because it isn't handling the hight DPI properly.
When Inkscape/GIMP get ported to GTK3, his complaint hopefully disappears.

Jeff

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