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["kristoffer Ödmark" <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

What are the roadblocks besides the huge amount of programming effort 
required for this? Im on linux and I would like this as well.

- Kristoffer


On 2017-12-04 19:09, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> > On 4. Dec 2017, at 18:55, 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.
>  From a macOS perspective I’d really love to see this.
> There are many small/big usability/GUI problems that just don’t work on macOS.
> The ones I tried to fix always ended up being some wx problem… and I gave up hope that they will get fixed any time soon or late (I am watching/using wx master for that reason, but didn’t see any improvements).
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
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