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[Alain Mouette <alainm@...>]

Hi,

I believe that 1280x1024 is too big.

The problem is not only with hobist, a big monitor is not too expensive.

The real problem but with *notebooks*. Lots of professionals need to 
work on notebooks. Mine is 1024x768, but with this new plague called 
"widescreen" they are getting lower vertical resolution.

Even on my machine, with a 19" 1280x1024, I have 93 bits lost with lower 
toolbars.

My best choice: 1024x600, this should work everywhere

BTW, thanks very, very much for all that wok :)
Alain

Dick Hollenbeck escreveu:
> Kicad is evolving to a point where it can provide value for corporate 
> users. In theory, if we have more corporate users, there will be more 
> corporate support. For corporate users to be interested, the program 
> cannot look like it was designed for a screen resolution of 600 x 400.
>
> Hobbyists often do not have high res screens. So to some, there is a 
> conflict of interest here. 
>
> Also, as we have seen this week (Marco and I both) it is *easier for 
> developers* to design a dialog window or a toolbar if space constraints 
> are not so limited. 
>
> Let me call the "Minimum Recommended Screen Resolution" our MRSR.
>
>
> Factors favoring a large MRSR:
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 1) Corporate adoption of Kicad.
> 2) Ease of development.
>
>
> Factors favoring a smaller MRSR:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> 1) Larger potential base of hobbyists with limited computers.
>
>
> We need an MRSR. This will allow us to do testing at that resolution, 
> and to design dialogs that are *guaranteed* to look good on that kind of 
> computer.
>
> I suggest that for year 2010 it be
>
> 1280x1024 pixels
>
>
> and that we put this into UIpolicy.txt, and that we revisit this in 2011 
> and possibly increase it then.
>
> I am happy to go higher if enough folks want to voice their opinion on 
> this. I would not be happy to go smaller, and although I could be over 
> powered on this, it might affect my ability to contribute meaningful 
> code (as I feel it would affect all developer's such ability), and I 
> feel it would affect corporate adoption negatively.
>
> Share your thoughts, then we can put the number into UIpolicy.txt and 
> start screening dialog windows for this. Somebody may end up being 
> unhappy, count on it.
>
> But we need to publish this MRSR and put it into UIpolicy.txt and onto 
> the user WIKI.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dick
>
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