Inconsistent icon sizes on hidpi screens
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Hi,
Using Emacs 24.5.1 on Linux Mint 18 with HiDPI scaling turned on, some icons are very small:
The text mode and autorevert icons are normal sized, but the python and terminal icons are small. I think this might have something to do with using icons from fonts vs. XPMs; I have FontAwesome, mfizz and IcoMoon installed on my system.
Yes. This is because of the difference between pixel icons vs fonts.
Is your emacs compiled with Imagemagick support? In theory, emacs should resize the images if you do...
Same size icons could also be supported if:
- emacs has svg support
- emacs allows resizing of svgs
- mode-icons supports svgs.
Or,
- mode-icons supports svg files by rescaling them in GIMP...
Is your emacs compiled with Imagemagick support?
I think so - at least, imagemagick-types exists and returns a big list of file types. Are there any particular variables I would need to set to make image resizing work? My emacs can also open svgs, but I'm not sure if that's a default feature or something I had to enable at compile time.
It seems it is supported on your system. Perhaps you can add some amount to the height to have the images resized appropriately...? I have added an option mode-icons-line-height-adjust to allow manual adjustment...
Finally had a chance to try this, but it doesn't seem to be working. The small icons are still the same size no matter what I set mode-icons-line-height-adjust to.
In case it was a conflict with something else in my configuration, I tried it with a blank .emacs, just installed the package and then did:
(setq mode-icons-line-height-adjust 20) ; or any other number
(mode-icons-mode)
Is that right?
In theory it should work, but obviously it doesn't. I'm not sure why. It may work in a standard buffer, but not in the mode line.
Having decent support for HiDPI would be a really big plus.
How about creating @2x versions of the icons?