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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depending on how drawing is implemented on other platforms this could cause a major performance impact.
The slowness on OS X was due to the fact that the dots are not just pixels, but really rendered and antialiased content (what obviously has much more impact on a HiDPI Retina display).

Before my change the naive drawing (each line/circle in a single “call”) was really bad.
Just a warning, but maybe this is not such a big deal on Linux/Windows...


Regards,
Bernhard

> On 14.01.2016, at 20:40, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> No, I just mean using the same style in both, either way. I don't really 
> care which, though I have a slight preference for dots myself.
> 
> Minor side note: I do almost wish the dots would become something like 
> little crosses when you zoom in. They're nice when zoomed out, but when 
> they are spaced very sparsely, they become almost invisible. 
> Alternatively, maybe the intensity of the color could be dialed back a 
> bit when zoomed out, to reflect the increased average intensity over the 
> displayed area?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 02:37:13PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> On 1/14/2016 1:58 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>> Yeah, I'll be difficult too - it looks Bad now, very distracting. The 
>>> legacy grid color was meant for use with a dot grid, not a line grid, so 
>>> it has to be brighter. When you use it for a line grid, it's really 
>>> garish.
>>> 
>>> I think that the grid color ought to be customizable like the layer 
>>> colors - and unless we want to make separate legacy and GAL grid color 
>>> options (which I really do not recommend), perhaps we should unify the 
>>> grid types?
>> 
>> If by unify you mean use lines in the legacy canvas in place of dots,
>> I'm not at all thrilled about that.  The line grid is too distracting
>> for normal use even when you dial back the color (since Tom's patch).  I
>> would prefer we figure out away to use dots (or some facsimile there of)
>> on the gal canvas.  I would be willing to guess that I'm not alone in
>> that preference.
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I know, I am difficult… :)
>>>> 
>>>> In GAL canvas grid was almost invisible up to now.
>>>> 
>>>> With one of the last commit it obviously respects grid color which it didn’t before… yes, it is very visible now:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is it intended to stay this way?
>>>> OK, I can see the grid very well now, but I hardly can see the ratsnest lines now… :)
>>>> 
>>>> I have seen in the code that a “dot” grid (using small rectangles) seems to be implemented… any special reasons why this is not used?
>>>> Should this maybe get a configuration option?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bernhard
>>> 
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