Examples of how it looks: http://i.imgur.com/vFsKhBR.png http://i.imgur.com/v1nkL7u.png
Not unusable but incredibly annoying On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > KiCad is graphically really broken on high DPI screens like my Surface > Book and Surface Pro. (I literally just got a Book a few days ago so I > never knew) > > On the high DPI display, it gets really bad with say the pcbcalculator > where the images are tiny and unreadable. > > > But if anything should be a "blocker" we should commit the change I > suggested here to at least enable GAL to function on high DPI: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1519590 > > > Cairo is also broken but I haven't had to the time to debug what is > bugging it out. > > Windows is supposed to be able to scale UI (which it does, everything > else that I have that isn't KiCad functions perfectly, QT apps, etc), > from what I am reading wxWidgets was setting a flag that it was DPI > aware and thus Windows doesn't scale UI. In 3.1.x they apparently > removed it but right now on 3.0.x I am not sure what is going on. > > > > High DPI screens are only going to get more common, if we want to push > off fixing it for next year then its fine. But the surfaces are really > exploding in popularity :3 > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If there is any reason not to roll out the stable release tomorrow, >> speak now or forever hold your peace. I will roll it out tomorrow >> evening assuming there are no serious bugs between now and then. If you >> have any last minute bug fixes, please submit or commit them. >> >> If you have any developers that need to be added to the credits in the >> about dialog, please make list with the authors name and email address >> and send them to me directly to avoid posting email addresses to the >> mailing list. I will add them to the about dialog before I roll out the >> stable release. Please keep in mind that credits should be given to >> developers who have contributed more than just a couple of patches. >> >> For repo maintainers, I am going to use tag "4.0.0" to tag the product >> repo. Please use the same tag so packagers only need to define a single >> tag in their build scripts. >> >> Hopefully all goes well and tomorrow we will have a new stable release. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > Mark -- Mark _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
