HiDPI support

[friedrich]

Is it available? Everything looks so tiny on my laptop.

[Timidger]

There hasn't been any work done on this feature, since I don't personally own any HiDPI screens. That will be something that might be tackled later, but patches are always welcome :)

[kiran-kp]

I can take a stab at this. I've got the project building but it'll take me a couple of weekends to get familiar with the codebase.

[Timidger]

Awesome, feel free to ping me on gitter if you need any help with understanding the code base

[kiran-kp]

Thanks!
I was able to hack together some basic scaling. Still need to work out bugs with fullscreen windows and set up some way to configure the factor.

[Timidger]

@kiran-kp what's the status on this? Still working on it?

[kiran-kp]

Sorry about the delay. I've been busy with work and travel for a bit. I won't be able to work on this for at least another week or two. If someone else wants to pick this up before that, I've pushed my half-baked changes to a hidpi_support branch for reference.

[Timidger]

@kiran-kp Awesome, no worries about the delay, just wanted to make sure this isn't something I'd need to tackle by myself later. Thanks for pushing your work, I'll see if I can take a look but I still want to focus on awesomewm compatibility first (really want that before the year is over, and the best way to do that is get it done ASAP)

[heyakyra]

I don't have any screens without hidpi, so I'm waiting on this as well!

[dortamiguel]

So now it's not possible to scale the ui?

[elementh]

Any update on this? :)

[Timidger]

This will be supported in the next release, which won't be for a while. We switched to wlroots, but most of the code base has been deleted and is being rewritten to behave exactly like a Wayland backend for the AwesomeWM.

[letalvoj]

I suppose that the next release was not the https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler/tree/v0.8.1 in the fall of 2018. I see that this project has had a plenty of activity since the last release, which is awesome. Is this issue going to be resolved any time soon?

[Timidger]

That was not the next release correct.

This will not be done soon