On 11/07/2013 01:03 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
On 11/07/2013 07:11 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
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?
It could be used when OpenGL renderer does not work. I am not really
sure if eg. Intel Atom integrated graphics is able to use it. I have
seen a glewinfo report that states the GPU is compatible only up to
OpenGL 1.4, which is 11 years old. I hope it was only an issue of having
not appropriate drivers.
Regards,
Orson
Please think about this:
At what point is is cheaper to buy the KiCad user a new computer, than it is to write
software for his incompatible computer?
cost of development is = man-hours x cost of a man-hour
The question needs to be asked. Likewise, it needs to be asked, can the project blacklist
computers and CPUs which are known to not work? Where does the commitment to support
inadequate hardware/software end?
Of course, the answer depends on each developer. But with the current cost of computers,
as low as they are, please do not expect much of little old me regarding support of
inadequate computers.
Dick
