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[elduderino]

> , but font rendering for GTK4 apps are horrible on low DPI displays

It's true but it is getting better. There were a number of plain...

[elduderino]

Lot's to unwrap here, and the decisions were all mine considering I wrote this code.

First off, it seems very unlikely that OpenGL will be...

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GSK_RENDERER=vulkan some-gtk4-app

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Apple themselves just released a 4.1 Core compatible OpenGL built on Metal for the M1. I highly doubt that is going anywhere for some time. And even if...

[elduderino]

Let me breaking it down for you then.

OpenGL works on every platform GTK runs on. It's the only accelerated rendering API we have on Linux...

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There is a Vulkan backend already. You can try it with GSK_RENDERER=vulkan.

DirectX and Metal are more interesting in that you still probably...

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The GTK 4 Windows backend does support OpenGL rendering already. Of course that doesn't help GIMP yet which is on GTK 3....

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Shrug. Everyone complains that the toolkit isn't cross-platform enough so I take some extra time to fix that and I'm welcomed with useless posts like...

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The Vulkan renderer does compile on macOS. It should just require implementing GdkVulkanContext to get MoltenVK working if anyone is interested in contributing...