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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not offended, just against keeping legacy because a handful of users
choose to run KiCad on unreasonably obsolete hardware or improperly
configured operating systems.

By the way, _please_ try a nightly build with faster Cairo before
campaigning for legacy to be kept for performance reasons.

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:02:48PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2017 13:32:14 Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:28:16PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 08 February 2017 13:18:39 Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > > > As a Linux user for many years now, that has not been my experience.
> > >
> > > You are a happy guy!
> > > I am the author of MSEide+MSEgui where users expect that it perfectly
> > > runs on every Windows, Linux and OpenBSD version on any hardware with
> > > every possible window manager in the universe, I know what I am talking
> > > about. :-)
> >
> > I don't think you do, because you're using your experience developing an
> > IDE to claim that CAD software shouldn't need OpenGL. That is a very
> > basic requirement for anything of a graphical nature.
> >
> Not for 2D. OpenGL is not well suited for 2D graphical applications. I made an 
> OpenGL backend for MSEgui and have some experience.
> 
> But you probably misunderstood. I only wanted to say that in the tests I did 
> with KiCad on different Linux boxes I had to select the legacy canvas to be 
> able to work with acceptable performance for zooming and redrawing. I switch 
> to OpenGL when I need the advanced functionality and back to legacy when the 
> snappier performance is more important. The 23 years old Orcad on the K6 
> Windows95 box is even snappier BTW.
> I thought that I should report the experience of a first time KiCad Linux user 
> because comments were requested. I am sorry if I offended you.
> 
> Martin
> 
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