Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2020-01-30

Just wanted to ping this issue, as I see the gerrit patch was abandoned?
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/86216/2

The builds should be compiled with the ./autogen.sh --with-macosx-sdk=10.13 option so we can have 
proper releases on macOS again

It’s now close to a year since the last working major release, 6.2, for a majority of macOS users

Best,
Eivind


> On 30 Jan 2020, at 20:04, Eivind Samseth <eisa01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On 30 Jan 2020, at 16:25, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@collabora.com> wrote:
> >
> > * QA update (Xisco)
> >   + Most pressing bugs:
> >    Old:
> >        + After Update to 6.1.4 on macOS fonts are blurred on retina
> > display (xcode 10)
> >           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122218
> >             + probably depends on xcode version (Xisco)
> >             + but newer xcode is required by notarization (Cloph)
> >               + ideal would be to build with xcode 10 entirely
> >               + HiDPI screen for Cloph would be great (Michael)
> >               + found out: not a regression, but it is from a user’s PoV
>
> Is there any update on this issue?
>
> I see there’s been some patches in gerrit that should fix it, but they have not been committed 
> for almost a month now
>
> In a nutshell, you need to build with macOS SDK 10.13, as SDK 10.14 and 10.15 produce blurry 
> results
> I have confirmed SDK 10.13 work with Xcode 11 on a recent nightly build
>
> The last working version for a majority of macOS users is 6.2.8
>
> Blurry screens is both annoying and is an ergonomic issue, it’s not good for your eyesight
>
> At a minimum the download page for macOS users should warn of this issue and point to 6.2.8 for 
> users with Retina screens, people should not have to Google this known problem
>
> There were two users on the bug report that found this issue and looked into it, that could 
> potentially be helpful to get in contact with for further macOS work?
> I’m not a developer — just been doing QA on macOS bugs from time to time :)
>
> Best,
> Eivind