Re: What is the proper way to scale fringe-bitmaps for high-DPI displays?

[Alex]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:33:33 +0700
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>, 
>>      emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> * Migrate everything to SVG. Teach developers SVG is good, bitmaps are
>> bad. Package developer provides a single vector image. Failure mode:
>> developer is on a high DPI screen, makes a high-detail image, low DPI
>> users complain “image is blurry”.
>
> The failure mode that bothers me much more is that Emacs without SVG
> support will be unable to show the standard fringe indicators.
>
> In general, having the basic Emacs functionality depend on image
> libraries is a non-starter, IMO.

What would be the issue in having this support be conditional if it is
otherwise the best solution?