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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Examples of how it looks:
http://i.imgur.com/vFsKhBR.png
http://i.imgur.com/v1nkL7u.png

Not unusable but incredibly annoying

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> KiCad is graphically really broken on high DPI screens like my Surface
> Book and Surface Pro. (I literally just got a Book a few days ago so I
> never knew)
>
> On the high DPI display, it gets really bad with say the pcbcalculator
> where the images are tiny and unreadable.
>
>
> But if anything should be a "blocker" we should commit the change I
> suggested here to at least enable GAL to function on high DPI:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1519590
>
>
> Cairo is also broken but I haven't had to the time to debug what is
> bugging it out.
>
> Windows is supposed to be able to scale UI (which it does, everything
> else that I have that isn't KiCad functions perfectly, QT apps, etc),
> from what I am reading wxWidgets was setting a flag that it was DPI
> aware and thus Windows doesn't scale UI. In 3.1.x they apparently
> removed it but right now on 3.0.x I am not sure what is going on.
>
>
>
> High DPI screens are only going to get more common, if we want to push
> off fixing it for next year then its fine. But the surfaces are really
> exploding in popularity :3
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If there is any reason not to roll out the stable release tomorrow,
>> speak now or forever hold your peace.  I will roll it out tomorrow
>> evening assuming there are no serious bugs between now and then.  If you
>> have any last minute bug fixes, please submit or commit them.
>>
>> If you have any developers that need to be added to the credits in the
>> about dialog, please make list with the authors name and email address
>> and send them to me directly to avoid posting email addresses to the
>> mailing list.  I will add them to the about dialog before I roll out the
>> stable release.  Please keep in mind that credits should be given to
>> developers who have contributed more than just a couple of patches.
>>
>> For repo maintainers, I am going to use tag "4.0.0" to tag the product
>> repo.  Please use the same tag so packagers only need to define a single
>> tag in their build scripts.
>>
>> Hopefully all goes well and tomorrow we will have a new stable release.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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> Mark



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Mark