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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/07/2013 11:59 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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

What is a fallback renderer?
i.e. when would it be used?