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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

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...

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Marco Ciampa

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