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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> Admittedly I may have a fairly forward attitude about this, but I just
> get pained when folks whine about the cost of having to buy hardware to
> run Kicad.  The software is not free to everyone, so why should the
> hardware be?  Perhaps some of this will evolve away as we get a higher
> percentage of corporate users vs. hobbyists.

Let aside that we're corporate users and I get paid too for working on
kicad... I don't say "opengl is not useful". I say "mandatory 3d
acceleration for a line based 2d cad system is overkill" for me.
Considering that otherwise performance is already pretty good, too (Wise
GerbTool is so slow at display that the make you *explicity* refresh
when you change something in the view parameters). And anyway good gpus
accelerate 2d drawing, too.

Also please note that I was one of the firsts to make suggestions on how
to have better quality for text :P

Anyway since he's talking about 'abstraction' I think it could support
both display modes.

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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