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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

With the wildly varying DPIs now available, I don’t think resolution is the right metric anymore.

For instance, my display is 2880 x 1800, but it’s a Retina so it acts more like a 1440 x 900 of yore.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 21 Jan 2018, at 11:04, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:31:57AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>> 
>> We have an unwritten policy about not spending precious development time
>> fixing small display issues.  This is a never ending issue because users
>> seem to think that we should support their 800X600 display resolution
>> forever.  If you feel the need to fix it and it doesn't break the
>> behavior for users with modern resolution displays and/or multiple
>> displays, by all means fix it.  I just don't want us to get hung up on
>> resolving small display issues.
> 
> To help being less generic about "screen issues" perhaps it would help to
> stick with the KiCad requirements:
> 
> http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/
> 
>> Screen resolution of 1024x768 works but, 1280x1024 or higher is
>> recommended, with at least 16K colors (with 1024x768 some buttons may
>> result hidden but corresponding commands should be reachable via menu
>> anyway).
> 
> if the problem is present anyway even if the screen should be supported,
> than it is a real issue, else it is just that the system is under spec.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> Marco Ciampa
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