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Re: Minimum Recommended Screen Resolution

 

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:
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1) Corporate adoption of Kicad.
2) Ease of development.


Factors favoring a smaller MRSR:
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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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