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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

2560x1440 @ 24” is only 122 DPI. 

Apple’s Retina displays are 220 or 227, and the Surface Book in the original bug report is 267 DPI.

> On 11 Jan 2018, at 09:54, kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have 2560x1440, 24" screens, I think those qualifies as high DPI?
> 
> The slider value is at 100, and the diag value is at 23. The icons are ish 5mm large.
> 
> But i guess that is uneccesary since It seems the scaling works as intended, I was just doing it wrong, so no errors, sorry :)
> 
> The scaling seems correct as well, 100 = 5mm, 150 = 7.5, 200 = 11, measured with a tape measure, so variance in size is expected.
> 
> 
> Application: kicad
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>     Boost: 1.65.1
>     Curl: 7.57.0
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> Build settings:
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>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
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> 
> On 2018-01-11 01:13, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> If your system DPI is already within a certain range it won't do
>> anything. Are you using a high DPI display? If it's not scaled
>> correctly, would you please share with me the diagnostic number reported
>> by the scale slider in eeschema prefs as well as a rough indication of
>> the icons' physical size? Thanks.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:16:46PM +0000, kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>>> Tried the patch, didnt really notice anything different though, I guess you
>>> need to add some custom scaling for this to take effect?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2018-01-10 22:23, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>> Sure, assign me to it. I should have time to work on it tonight or
>>>> tomorrow.
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:20:21PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>>> FYI, the edit footprint dialog in Pcbnew is not sized properly (at least
>>>>> on windows) which I'm pretty sure is related to your recent HiDPI work.
>>>>> Do you want me to file a bug report for it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 1/10/2018 2:01 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>>>> By the way, I'm going to go ahead and push this tonight-ish if nobody
>>>>>> objects. I know it's on the big side, but due to my limited number of
>>>>>> machines to test on I really want time for user feedback. I'll be around
>>>>>> to put out any fires.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:07:49AM -0700, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>>>>> Rebased patch attached.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:27:16PM +0000, Maciej Sumiński 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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