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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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> Marco Ciampa
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