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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:53:12PM +0000, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 04/12/17 18:48, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Hey, just a comment because I see people are wrestling with
> > COMPONENT_TREE performance as I did when writing it. TEST ON MACOS. The
> > performance of the widget there has a really different profile from on
> > other systems. I had to do things in really unobvious ways to make it
> > perform reasonably there.
> > 
> 
> I've noticed spending more and more time fixing wxWidgets bugs instead
> of Kicad bugs. Maybe we should have a serious look at Qt or Electron
> (Webkit/JS-based UI) as a possible future alternative for wx...

YES. I try not to bring it up too much because I know the lead devs
aren't fond of the idea of changing the GUI toolkit, but I strongly
believe we could benefit from that. Obviously it can't really happen
until we ditch wxDC.

> 
> Tom (fighting with wxWidgets thread safety under Windows...)