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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Music to my ears.

So I’ll assume:

1) switch eeschema dialog canvases to Cairo (only)
2) after we’re up and running, switch pcbnew dialog canvases to Cairo (only)

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 27 Aug 2018, at 21:09, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 27/08/18 22:03, Jeff Young wrote:
>> Are we going to support a Legacy/Modern canvas switch for Eeschema in 5.1?
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> There's no such option, at least in the code I've written so far. Note
> that it's only a change of the renderer while all tools stay the same.
> It was justified in the case of PCBnew where we had to develop a set of
> new tools that had to be tested against the legacy versions. Since GAL
> code is now quite mature, IMHO the risk of replacing wx renderer with it
> is much lower than the amount of work required to switch the renderers.
> 
> Tom