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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh god no. Can you imagine the bug reports from people who can't find settings?

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On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 04:41:20PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Maybe just show or enable the settings if the appropriate canvas is active?
> 
> 2016-05-03 14:52 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 5/2/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >> I'd like to start having a look at how I can organize the preferences for
> >> pcbnew, having mostly finished in eeschema. (A few things remain to be tweaked
> >> and will probably be done at the same time as pcbnew, to keep things in sync).
> >>
> >> The problem of legacy preferences vs GAL preferences needs to be addressed. How
> >> do we want to handle that? At this point, I'm not sure what the timeline is for
> >> actual removal of legacy - should I wait until we do that?
> >
> > This is most likely going to be a while so you wont be able to remove
> > the legacy canvas settings until we completely remove the legacy canvas
> > from the source.
> >
> >>
> >> If not, I want to try to merge options as much as possible. There are some
> >> things that are duplicated between the two, which I'd like to fix. But the
> >> bigger question is: how should we present to the user things that are only
> >> available in one or the other?
> >>
> >> I could simply make sections on the preferences pages: "Legacy canvas only",
> >> "OpenGL or Cairo canvas only". That's ugly and makes me cringe, but I can't
> >> think of anything better. Two separate, parallel preferences systems like we
> >> have right now just won't do. Thoughts?
> >
> > Even though separating the settings is probably going to be ugly, it's
> > the most prudent way to go in terms of effort.  If they are organized
> > this way, it should be fairly easy to remove them when we finally get
> > around to dumping the legacy canvas.
> >
> >>
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