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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/2013 4:33 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Does anyone have anything against disabling switching (remove its hotkey
> and menu entry) to Cairo backend? I think it may only give a bad
> impression to users, as it is too slow for comfortable work. I am going
> to maintain it in case that there are changes in the GAL, but as it was
> said in the beginning - its main purpose is for PDF generation or printing.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 

I'm fine with disabling it.  It's not useful for display rendering even
on my home computer which is very fast.  I can't image how slow it must
be on an older system or laptop.  Is there any other reason to Cairo
rendering around?