Upgrade for retina displays

[georgemckibbin]

Would be great if this supported retina display levels of detail :D

[remear]

I don't have a retina display so I don't even know what doesn't look great on one. Screenshots would help.

[docwhat]

You don't need a retina display, just the High Resolution Guidelines for OS X

Quote:

You don’t need a high-resolution display to start optimizing your app and testing the code. Quartz Debug has features you can use to make sure your app is working as expected. When things don’t work as expected, the troubleshooting section can help you figure out the issue.

I (and I suspect @cooliodoc) would be willing to test the updated application. You can contact me at http://docwhat.org/email

A quick scan shows these things that need updating:

• The MenuBar icon needs a higher res. version.
• The toolbar icons need higher res. versions. (Dashboard, Manage Rubies, etc.)
• Dashboard:
  • The text in the legend ("Archives", "Repos", etc.) is fuzzy; don't render to an image, or if you must, double the image size and let the apple rendering magic scale it down if needed.
• The other images look okay, but could probably be doubled as well (About and the Update tabs).

If you think images would be helpful, I can send them.

[remear]

To be more clear, I don't have access to a machine with a retina display and I don't like releasing things I'm unable to test or have tested. So, since you're willing to test it out, when I get time I can work on producing hi-res graphics and invite those monitoring this issue to test the changes in a beta release.

[docwhat]

Sure, I got that.

I wasn't clear on my point, which is that (according to my understanding) you use the same code paths and the same images for retina and non-retina systems. OS X then scales images and renders fonts for you. Even rendering the Dashboard space usage legend would be the same, just scaled down on non-retina computers.

Still happy to test. :-)

Ciao!

[remear]

Update: I spent some time today "retinafying" the application.

Completed

Main area icons Disk usage meter container Disk usage meter legend

Remaining

Menu icon Active area carrot Dot images Arrow right-left icons used in popovers Ruby installation sidebar Gemset copy button Gem server button Wipe gemset button

[remear]

This should now be complete and will be available in v1.4.

[remear]

@cooliodoc @docwhat You're welcome to test the v1.4 beta and see if anything still looks bad on a retina display. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5676052/JewelryBox_v1.4_b1.zip