Edmundson: High DPI Progress

At his blog, David Edmundson writesabout the state of high-DPI support in KDE. "For someapplications supporting high DPI has been easy. It is a single oneline in KWrite, and suddenly all icons look spot on with noregressions. For applications such as Dolphin which do a lot moregraphical tasks, this has not been so trivial. There are a lot ofimages involved, and a lot of complicated code around caching thesewhich conflicts with the high resolution support without some furtherwork." He is personally trackingthe progress of many applications, but notes that there are manyunsolved 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, fromNovember 2014, is also quite informative.