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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 10/7/2010 12:54 PM, Alex G wrote:

> > I'm looking forward to making more contributions, and I'll be able to do
> > more as I tackle more parts of kicad and get familiar with the code.
> > What I'd like to see is OpenGL rendering in pcbnew, so that's what I'll
> > try to familiarize myself with next. The possibilities are endless.
>
> I hope you consider pushing the OpenGL rendering down the stack so it can be
> used by all the Kicad applications not just PCBNew.  You may want to check with
> Torsten Hueter as he was working on this.  Check out his kicad-gal repo on
> launchpad to see what he has done already.  Thanks for taking the time to help out.
>
> Wayne

Second that. Please also take a look at gEDA gschem and pcb, there are 
many clever trics for speeding up rendering. Peter Clifton did most of the 
Cairo (gschem) and OpenGL (pcb) work a few years ago. Especially 
gschem rendering is _very_ nice with well tuned anti aliasing, font 
hinting and line grid fitting. Mailing lists contain quite a lot of info 
if you have the time for digging. I chose KiCad for work flow and feature 
reasons, but graphics look and feel has always made me envy gEDA ;)

-Vesa