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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has been a long time since I have seen reports from people saying they
can start pcbnew becasue of opengl. So I think we can sort of safely enable
it as a default. But at least pcbnew saves the canvas setting.

2017-12-30 22:36 GMT+01:00 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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