Increase DPI on retina

I've recently switched from a 13" MBA to a 13" MBP with retina display and I'm sad to see that I now have much less screen real-estate - where I used to have 1440 physical and logical vertical pixels I now effectively have 1280. UI elements appear quite large, side panels take up a large part of the screen, and websites are shown much like they were in 1999...
It all comes from OSX scaling the UI at 2:1. I've heard talk about OSX becoming pixel-independent meaning it should be able to scale freely. What I'd like to do, then, is scale things at 1.7:1 or something in that neighborhood and get my space back.
I've tried using Quartz Debug but it no longer does anything in this regard. Any suggestions? Thanks!

From Jörg, the creator of Eye-Friendly:
Photoshop obviously refers to pixels instead of points to display images - which I think is appropriate. On a retina screen 4 pixels in square make up a point.
Setting your RMBP 13" to 1440x900 points HiDPI means that it will use 2880x1800 pixels to display anything. Therefore, an image of pixel size 2560x1600 of course will appear smaller than the screen (Photoshop references pixels instead of points).
Since 2880x1800 pixels is higher than your native resolution, OS X tries to match it best with your native 2560x1600 resolution.
He captures the problem perfectly, I think.
What disappoints me is the fact that "on a retina screen, 4 pixels make up a point" - meaning a completely static 200% scaling of the UI.
The original plan for OS X was to make it resolution independent. That would make it possible to scale things fluidly - for instance at 175% - just like when you change the size of the dock, actually. But I believe it turned out to be too much work converting everything to vector, so sadly they took a shortcut and simply doubled everything...
On Windows it is possible to change the DPI fluidly, but it only gives good results for some parts of the UI.

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