Hi guys, Alex: > I'm find the idea of going QT interesting, but I have to ask the > question: "Isn't QT slower?". It may be just me, but I get the feeling > that wxGTK apps are the most responsive on my F13 box.
Well I've tried the performance of wxGC vs. QPainter and the QPainter wasn't faster (AFAIK a little bit slower). In general I like QT coding style and the API - although I think wxWidgets made a good step forward with the new release (2.9.1). For instance event binding is much easier now. > I never questioned kicad's decision to use wxWidgets. I do think, > however, of the 3d-viewer crashing on non-nvidia cards or nvidia cards > with nouveau. I can reproduce it 100%. I don't think that wxWidgets can be blamed for this problem - my OpenGL GAL test programs work well with wxWidgets and an ATI HD4650. Have you tried other OpenGL applications (driver problem?) > Are these and similar sort of > issues common with wx? Would it be easier to switch to a different GUI > system instead of patching up wx? If the answer to the last two > questions is yes, then count me in on the effort. Although I think that QT is better, the question for me is if the porting to a new widget toolkit is worth the effort. Because KiCad is in my opinion relative tight bound to wxWidgets porting requires surely a lot of work. Bye .. Torsten -- GRATIS! Movie-FLAT mit über 300 Videos. Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome _______________________________________________ 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
