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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

The power of defaults ;)

This is also something I have encountered has turned a lot of users 
away, because when they try it, they dont really like the setup. So even 
if they can change it, they give up before they realize they can.

-Kristoffer

On 12/30/2017 10:30 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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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