2016-11-27 9:58 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>:
> 2016-11-27 5:13 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>  There have been a small number of reports of rendering problems since around
>> March this year but with apparently no progress.  I thought I'd let people 
>> know
>> of the bug report which had been filed so that devs with more experience with
>> the rendering might have a look and see if they happen to instantly recognize
>> what's going on:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1556368
>>
>> The most common complaint seems to be "I upgraded some Debian-based
>> distro and now the rendering in eeschema and pcbnew-legacy has problems
>> which make it unusable, but pcbnew-opengl works." A few people also mention
>> that their machine has some Intel chipset but there are too few reports to 
>> see
>> if the chipset actually has anything to do with the problem. There are too 
>> few
>> reports and too little information at the moment, but I'm hoping someone 
>> might
>> have seen this problem before and know what might be happening.
>>
>> It is not clear if the reports have some relation to the bug which was
>> discussed here and which has a workaround:
>>
>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg17048.html
>>
>> Some of the reports suggest that the 2 bugs may not be quite the same
>> even if the results are similar since the known bug affects wxGTK3 + GTK3
>> while one report on the more recent bug suggest that wxGTK3 + GTK2 is
>> also affected.
>
> If that is #8 from 1556368, then it is still likely that he did not
> actually build against the wxgtk3 with gtk2 combination.
>

It looks like ubuntu 16.10 (y) still uses wxgtk3 with gtk2. So I don't
know if that manifests itself with the same symptoms or not. Maybe
they started building with some other build options?

_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Post to     : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Reply via email to