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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 21/02/2017 à 16:35, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 04:30:11PM +0100, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 21/02/2017 à 16:05, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 02:57:18PM +0100, jp charras wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> After changing an option, you have to quit and restart Kicad, to take in account the icon settings.
>>>
>>> I don't have time to test this right now, but... for me, this is
>>> unacceptable. No option should require a restart. The functions that
>>> populate the menus claim to be able to repopulate them, you should make
>>> use of that, and fix it if it doesn't work right.
>>
>> Chris, you have missed something: it is an *experimental* feature.
>> Therefore I need to known is it is working or useful.
>>
>> I do not want spend my time to repopulate the toolbars, if this feature does not work fine on HDPI
>> monitors, and if is is never added to Kicad.
>>
>> Therefore it is perfectly acceptable, for an experimental test.
> 
> Sure, I just mean it won't be acceptable if the experimental feature is
> turned into a real feature ;)

Before it is a real feature, there is still a lot of work.
For instance:
* resizing images which are not icons from svg files (layer Selector for instance).
* resizing combo boxes when a resized image is displayed.
* define if the selection is for the full kicad suite, or per application (one for eeschema, one for
pcbnew and so on).
Just because if you are working with 2 monitors (a frequent case to be efficient when designing a
board: many of corporate board designers I know work with 2 and sometimes 3 monitors) you can have 2
different selections, if one monitor is HDPI, and the other is not.

> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I need to know:
>>>> * If the look of large icons is good with HDPI monitors (standards icons are just scaled)
>>>> * If it is useful with monitors having only a vertical size of 800 pixels (choose "small icons")
>>>> * If HDPI monitors are correctly detected (the Kicad/preferences/Icons Options shows in HDPI
>>>> SysScale menu the scaling factor returned by wxWidgets for the monitor in use to display the Kicad
>>>> manger.
>>>> * If it makes sense to have an option to enable/disable icons in menus at run time, especially for
>>>> OSX users.
>>>
>>> OSX cannot display icons in menus, so hide the option for them.
>>>
>>> Why can't we just kill menu icons entirely? Very few other applications
>>> use them, and those that do use them sparingly, only for things users
>>> need to find very quickly. KiCad is the only one I've seen that puts a
>>> bloody huge icon on every single menu item.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Attached the patch to test this experimental feature.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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