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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got some experience with Qt and would be willing to help out with
investigating this at some point.   My only experience with wx is with
kicad, and it seems to have many more problems than Qt...
On the other hand, I disagree with the suggestion that Electron would be a
good path for KiCad, every single Electron program I have used has terrible
performance.

-Jon

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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...)
>
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