On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:47:10PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 11/2/2015 7:24 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:01:38PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 04:58:01PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: > >>>> - 1280x1024 resolution (higher resolution recommended), with at least > >>>> 16K colors. > >>> > >>> I just tried with a small window on a larger screen, sizes around > >>> 1024x768 work ok. It's not ample, of course, but perfectly usable. > >> > >> Mmmm with my HD 1336x768 in Pcbnew I have some buttons hided, so I will > >> remain on 1280x1024. Than does _not_ mean that you cannot use it with > >> 1024x768 screens, I just mean that we do not recommend it. > >> You are warned, just to avoid users complains. > >> > >>> Even 800x600 basically works, but about half the toolbar buttons > >>> disappear then. One can use the regular menus, of course, > >>> still not good for a "recommended" setup. > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Precisely. > > [...] > > > > Sorry if I re-open this thread... but an idea... > > > > 1) HD screens 1336x768 are quite common on laptop these days, and > > probably diffused at school > > > > 2) KiCad is perfectly usable at this resolution but for a few icon hiding > > > > Why not permit as an option to have smaller icons? That would be really > > useful for small/economic laptops... > > This has been discussed many times in the past. The only solution that > I would accept is to provide kicad bitmap dynamic libraries with the > appropriate sized bitmaps. I will reject any solution that statically > links more than one size of each bitmap into the executable files for > obvious reasons. This means the library versioning will have to be > implemented and maintained to make sure that new bitmaps are available > for newer version of KiCad. I will also reject any solution that only > allows me to install one version of the library at a time. So far, no > one has taken up the task on this so my guess is that it is only > important to an small number of users. If I recall correctly, there is > a lot of hand tweaking of the bitmaps after they are converted for svg > so there is also that to consider.
Perfectly reasonable and sensible. This could be signaled as an "easy hack" at low priority to introduce someone to kicad sources... -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. +------------------------+ | GNU/Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
