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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

OSX/macOS has built-in scaling for those, other operating systems don't.

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:40:20PM +0100, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> can you show a screenshot what this patch fixes?
> I have a Retina MacBook and for my taste the toolbar icons are pretty OK without any patch…
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> > On 9. Jan 2018, at 14:27, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > The patch does not apply cleanly on the current master, would you rebase
> > it? Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Orson
> > 
> > On 01/09/2018 03:43 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> As discussed with Wayne earlier, I've attached a patch which adds simple
> >> toolbar icon scaling so the toolbars are readable on high-DPI systems.
> >> 
> >> This is meant as a stopgap for 5.0, with plans to add proper scaled
> >> icons in the 6.0 cycle. A function KiScaledBitmap() is added, which
> >> works like KiBitmap() except it scales the bitmap according to the
> >> calling window's font size. Controls have been added to all the main
> >> applications to let the user select scaling manually (these were omitted
> >> from smaller apps that didn't already have a place to put them).
> >> 
> >> In addition, in eeschema only, the pixel height of the system font is
> >> shown in the options dialog for diagnostics. This is only for collecting
> >> feedback before 5.0 release from users with different displays and will
> >> be removed.
> >> 
> >> I would like to push this fairly soon, as I want to get as much user
> >> feedback as possible before release. I have a limited number of systems
> >> to test this on myself.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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