Hello David, On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 04:09:28PM -0700, David Tomaschik wrote: > Package: kicad > Version: 5.0.0~rc1+dfsg1+20180318-3 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > When loading eeschema in the 5.0.0-rc1 version from experimental, the > schematic > editor is very sluggish. There is a thread about this on the kicad forums > here: > > https://forum.kicad.info/t/debian-kicad-5-0-0-rc2-dev-eeschema-sluggish/10464 > > It appears to be related to USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT, but that seems necessary > to > use with wxwidgets linked with Gtk3. I don't know what workarounds are > possible.
this issue was already raised by some other person but somehow no bug was opened about this. We now the root for this behavior which is related to the currently enabled wxpython (with GTK+3 bindings) usage by KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON. We will drop this setting with the next upload which should happen soon as now RC2 is released. Regards Carsten
