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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pleeeeeeease!

It makes no sense to use a canvas we call "legacy" as default. GAL may
still not have 100% feature parity to allow _removing_ legacy but it's
totally ready to be the default.

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 08:51:53PM +0000, José Ignacio wrote:
> Since the GAL is pretty much feature complete (I have used it exclusively
> for the last year and a half) and the Cairo canvas has much improved
> performance (it is *significantly* faster than legacy on my systems),
> should pcbnew make the switch to have Cairo as the default canvas?
> 
> I understand OpenGL may still be undesirable because some defective or
> misconfigured systems may have crashing issues with kicad preventing the
> user to switch away from OpenGL, but that may even not be the case anymore.