[Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-15 Thread Chris Pavlina
Other than a decently efficient fallback backend for systems that can't handle OpenGL+GAL, do we have an official list of things we need to be implemented in GAL before legacy can be taken out? I really want to keep working on the UI cleanup, but having dual canvases is quite the roadblock to doing

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Chris, Have a look at the last summary, commented by Wayne [1] and a few reports tagged as such [2]. Perhaps we need to have a software renderer that offers decent speed, then we can either use wxDC or try to boost Cairo GAL performance (I have done some minor improvements [3], but probably the

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread jp charras
Le 16/06/2016 à 03:30, Chris Pavlina a écrit : > Other than a decently efficient fallback backend for systems that can't handle > OpenGL+GAL, do we have an official list of things we need to be implemented in > GAL before legacy can be taken out? I really want to keep working on the UI > cleanup, b

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread easyw
there are two missing features I noticed: 1) contextual 'Grid Select' menu to change Grid size while routing 2) Global Spread and Place menu Maurice On 16/06/2016 03.30, Chris Pavlina wrote: Other than a decently efficient fallback backend for systems that can't handle OpenGL+GAL, do we have a

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread Chris Pavlina
I mean features we _need_ in GAL, not just things legacy has that GAL doesn't. Some of those things don't need to be in legacy either. I don't see any need for the Global Spread and Place menu in the future - the autorouter is garbage, and we don't dump all the parts in a big pile anymore. What do

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread easyw
I mean features we _need_ in GAL sorry, I cannot imagine what _you_ consider a need... I just noticed that and other people did the same at the forum... As for a grid menu...why? You can still change the grid by hotkey or by the menu in the toolbar. hotkeys are fine but the menu in the toolbar

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-16 Thread Chris Pavlina
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:50:21PM +0200, easyw wrote: > >I mean features we _need_ in GAL > sorry, I cannot imagine what _you_ consider a need... > I just noticed that and other people did the same at the forum... That's why I asked for an "official" list, I wasn't looking for opinions... > > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/16/2016 5:17 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:50:21PM +0200, easyw wrote: >>> I mean features we _need_ in GAL >> sorry, I cannot imagine what _you_ consider a need... >> I just noticed that and other people did the same at the forum... > > That's why I asked for an "offi