Edmundson: High DPI Progress

At his blog, David Edmundson writes about the state of high-DPI support in KDE. "For some applications supporting high DPI has been easy. It is a single one line in KWrite, and suddenly all icons look spot on with no regressions. For applications such as Dolphin which do a lot more graphical tasks, this has not been so trivial. There are a lot of images involved, and a lot of complicated code around caching these which conflicts with the high resolution support without some further work." He is personally tracking the progress of many applications, but notes that there are many unsolved issues. "There are still many applications without a frameworks release even in the upcoming 15.04 applications release. Even in the next applications release in 15.08 August we are still unlikely to see a released PIM stack. Is it a good idea to add an option into our UIs that improves some applications at the cost of consistency? It's not an easy answer." This update is Edmunsdon's second post on the subject; the first, from November 2014, is also quite informative.