Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-20 Thread John Beard
On 20 March 2019 13:58:41 GMT, Jeff Young wrote: > > Ahh… yes, OSX does its own upscale (my icon scale is set to 100%). Hmm, there's not a lot we can do in that case until we can support 2x resolution icons. On the plus side, AFAIK, WX 3.0 on OSX *does* support scale detection (GetContentScaleFa

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-20 Thread Jeff Young
Ahh… yes, OSX does its own upscale (my icon scale is set to 100%). > On 20 Mar 2019, at 13:55, John Beard wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > This should apply to icons which are upscaled using the preferences (I set > 200% to get that result). How big are they on your screen? Or maybe OSX does > its ow

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-20 Thread John Beard
Hi Jeff, This should apply to icons which are upscaled using the preferences (I set 200% to get that result). How big are they on your screen? Or maybe OSX does its own upscale? Cheers, John On 20 March 2019 13:46:07 GMT, Jeff Young wrote: >Hi John, > >Is there something I need to do to tur

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-20 Thread Jeff Young
Hi John, Is there something I need to do to turn this on? I applied your patch, but the icons look identical to the way they did before. Cheers, Jeff. > On 20 Mar 2019, at 10:51, John Beard wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > Moving off-topic from the module icons, can you have a quick check on > reti

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-20 Thread John Beard
Hi Ruth, Thanks for the feedback. I'm not really proposing to change any icon metaphors or colours right now. The module icon is probably one of the most distinctive KiCad icons (in term of colour and form), so changes there are a whole new topic. De-emphasising the background item in overlaid ic

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 3/19/19 5:27 PM, John Beard wrote: > Hi Seth, > > I know what you mean. Our icons are not really designed for high DPI, > the truly correct solution is to have a whole set of more detailed icons > that don't look as chunky when rendered out at 52x52px. > > The next best IMO is to render the (v

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread John Beard
Hi Seth, I know what you mean. Our icons are not really designed for high DPI, the truly correct solution is to have a whole set of more detailed icons that don't look as chunky when rendered out at 52x52px. The next best IMO is to render the (vector) icons at double resolution, so they stay a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread Seth Hillbrand
OT: I'm reminded of watching a Yankees game the first time they broadcast in high definition and feeling really bad for Joe Torre's dermatologist. That is to say I second Jeff's take; some things look better blurry. That said, if you pixel align these icons, we can require pixel alignment fo

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread John Beard
Hi Jeff, Presumably for Retina, and other hiDPI displays, we should either be rendering a 2x resolution icon set or we should load them as SVG in the first place rather than doing a bilinear upscale (which will look pretty bad for icons that start out aligned nicely). IIRC the current upscal

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread Jeff Young
The blurry ones actually look better on a Retina display, but I’m OK with the others if they look better everywhere else. Cheers, Jeff. > On 19 Mar 2019, at 19:54, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Whew! I was starting worry about my vision there for minute :) > > On 3/19/2019 3:52 PM, John Beard

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Whew! I was starting worry about my vision there for minute :) On 3/19/2019 3:52 PM, John Beard wrote: > D'oh, yes! Sorry, new ones on the right, I changed it and didn't > change the text. > > Cheers, > > John > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> >> Hey John, >> >> Ar

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread John Beard
D'oh, yes! Sorry, new ones on the right, I changed it and didn't change the text. Cheers, John On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Hey John, > > Are you sure the new icons aren't on the right? The ones on the left > look blurry to me. Either may eyes are totally gone or

Re: [Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hey John, Are you sure the new icons aren't on the right? The ones on the left look blurry to me. Either may eyes are totally gone or the icons on the right are the aligned ones. Cheers, Wayne On 3/19/2019 3:43 PM, John Beard wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to pixel align the module icons in Pcbnew,

[Kicad-developers] Module icons

2019-03-19 Thread John Beard
Hi, I plan to pixel align the module icons in Pcbnew, as they are currently blurry (and not even consistently blurry) - they're probably the worst offenders left for blurriness. Getting these aligned at 26px will be a good step towards hiDPI-aware scalable icons, as they will also be aligned at 2x