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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 09:27:46PM +0000, Jeff Young wrote:
> +1.
> 
> (I used legacy for 6 months because I thought the only difference was in rendering.  I didn’t realise all the tools were different too….)

I hear this a _lot_ from beginners. We're shipping so many cool new
features that a surprising number of people don't know exist because we
hide them.

> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> > On 30 Dec 2017, at 21:13, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
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