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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is possible solution as well.  My concern with this is that users
will ignore the message as users tend to do and start bitching about the
performance.

On 12/31/2017 08:49 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
> What about having the default set to cairo, and when the first/once run
> dialog runs it talks about openGL (this goes against you already set to
> GAL) but it allows a default that even if it crashes won’t require
> manually editing a configuration to make it workable
> 
> Simon
> 
>> On 1/01/2018, at 2:48 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> I spite of my disdain for nagware, I'll tolerate this under the
>> following conditions:
>>
>> The current canvas is not already on one of the gal canvases.  If the
>> user is already using a gal canvas, a dialog to inform the user about
>> the gal canvas is silly.
>>
>> It's a one shot dialog that never appears again.
>>
>> If the gal canvas crashes, the user isn't going to have to manually edit
>> a configuration file to restore the legacy canvas.  This requirement may
>> prevent us from setting the opengl canvas as the default so the solution
>> may not be as easy as it seems.
>>
>> On 12/31/2017 07:34 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> +1 to the startup dialog idea.
>>>
>>> I think we also need to set reasonable transparencies in the layers
>>> so that it looks more like the default legacy canvas.
>>
>> I don' think this is necessary given that the gal canvas layer colors
>> and transparencies are completely user configurable but I'm not opposed
>> to a default layer color/transparency configuration that looks more like
>> the legacy canvas.
>>
>>>
>>>> On 31 Dec 2017, at 10:09, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:cko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-12-31 03:53, Jon Evans wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>> An initial start-up dialog to setup the "users default" after a
>>>> first install or after a "reset Kicad to defaults, as I messed
>>>> something up I don't remember" seems very helpful to me. If OpenGL
>>>> might still crash in rare cases, warn the user in advance and
>>>> explain, how he can safely step back from using OpenGL in case it
>>>> doesn't work and how to file a bug report...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Clemens
>>>>
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