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Re: Mac HighDPI performance

 

Only KiCad app has Open in Low Resolution Mode, and I already had it
enabled!

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Andrey-
>
> I'm moving this to a new thread so that we don't conflate the OpenMP
> discussion with this.
>
> Can you test running Kicad with the "Open in Low Resolution" mode
> enabled?  You can activate this by choosing "Get Info" on the main KiCad
> application and checking the option that says "Open in Low Resolution".
> You may need to do the same for the other applications (Eeschema, pcbnew,
> etc) as well.
>
> -Seth
>
> ​
> ​
> 2018-03-01 18:09 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So for now I've had a chance to test the motherboard project on my Retina
>> macbook display.
>> eeschema: horrible zoom, feels like elastic band zoom and I have all
>> scroll wheel accelerations and similar disabled, zoom response is super
>> laggy, cannot work like this, will need to make schematics on windows.
>> pcbnew by order of slowness:
>> legacy - pretty slow, zoom lag is major, boo boo
>> modern (fallback) - decent, but the lag can be felt, zoom lag is minor
>> modern (accelerated) - almost cannot feel the lag, very nice, nice zoom
>> responsiveness
>>
>> I'll report tomorrow on 5K LG display.
>>
> ​
>
>
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