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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/7/2013 12:36 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Doesn't it make more sense to fallback to the wxDC rendering?  It's
known to work well except under certain conditions on OSX.  You cannot
perform any editing other than using the P&S router so I'm not sure that
it's very useful as a fallback.

Wayne