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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/05/2013 07:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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?

It could be used as a fallback renderer, but right now it is too slow 
for that, so - in fact, there is no sensible reason.

Regards,
Orson