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Re: OpenGL fallback and video compat test

 

Cairo is much faster since the awesome devs at CERN (iirc) had another
go at it. But thats currently only in nightlies and i believe has been
decided to use that instead of trying to make a DC GAL. Have you tried
recentish nightly cairo?

On 24 March 2017 at 21:51, Lorenzo Marcantonio <lomarcan@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:11:31PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thinking about my intent to make KiCad fall back cleanly to
>> Cairo when OpenGL isn't available. From what I can see, there are
>
> Wouldn't be better to try to make a DC version of the GAL instead of
> cairo since it is... well.. quite slow? (and that's an understatement)
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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