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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this would be work for someone to do and maybe I'd offer to do it if
the project leaders approve...
What about a one-time pop-up when first installing a release 5.0 that
appears if the config says the user was using legacy canvas, telling them
about how to switch and that they should check it out?

-Jon

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I don't have any issues with this but it will only apply to new
> installs.  Existing installs will have the last canvas selected in the
> user's kicad config.
>
> On 12/30/2017 04:36 PM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > 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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