On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 09:27:46PM +0000, Jeff Young wrote: > +1. > > (I used legacy for 6 months because I thought the only difference was in > rendering. I didn’t realise all the tools were different too….)
I hear this a _lot_ from beginners. We're shipping so many cool new features that a surprising number of people don't know exist because we hide them. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > > On 30 Dec 2017, at 21:13, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Pleeeeeeease! > > > > It makes no sense to use a canvas we call "legacy" as default. GAL may > > still not have 100% feature parity to allow _removing_ legacy but it's > > totally ready to be the default. > > > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 08:51:53PM +0000, José Ignacio wrote: > >> Since the GAL is pretty much feature complete (I have used it exclusively > >> for the last year and a half) and the Cairo canvas has much improved > >> performance (it is *significantly* faster than legacy on my systems), > >> should pcbnew make the switch to have Cairo as the default canvas? > >> > >> I understand OpenGL may still be undesirable because some defective or > >> misconfigured systems may have crashing issues with kicad preventing the > >> user to switch away from OpenGL, but that may even not be the case anymore. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
