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[Alex G <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 10/11/2010 09:25 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Alex G wrote:
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>> On 10/10/2010 12:35 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
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>>>> We are essentially rewriting eeschema very soon.
>>>
>>> Any plans going metric on the way? I know it doesn't actuallu matter
>>
>> I second that. Imperial is so last millennium.
> 
> Also there is already the 10nm proposal of a few month ago.
>>
>> I'm find the idea of going QT interesting, but I have to ask the
>> question: "Isn't QT slower?". It may be just me, but I get the feeling
>> that wxGTK apps are the most responsive on my F13 box.
> 
> I don't like qt, actually :P and I don't see what's wrong with wx, since
> a lot of other apps use it (I actually prefer clean C GTK, but that's
> another story...). I don't think that the opengl bug isn't unavoidable
> on wx... aren't there other apps using it out there?
> 
And there is also wxQT in the works, so it might become possible to
compile kicad with either GTK or QT without any code modification.

> I mean, kicad opengl use is of the plain, opengl 1.1 flavour *and* the
> only thing between X and it is XGL. What are we doing so strange that
> segfaults on non-nvidia gear?
> 
I tried to find out, and the problem is in a wxWidgets call. Let me know
if you want to track down this issue. I can give you what I have so far.
Also Alain Portal did some tracking on Fedora Bugzilla.

Alex
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