On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:25:01 -0500, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/12/2010 01:39 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, "Torsten Hüter" wrote: >> >>> I'm not yet happy with the text quality on OpenGL - perhaps I'll try >>> out textures for small texts. For a higher quality (OpenGL) you have >>> to force antialiasing in the graphics card setup on your desktop. >> >> Please tell me we're *not* going toward opengl only. I simply do not >> have an opengl capable machine at work :( Actually, I'm using kicad in >> remote X! > > > Torsten, > > > Thank you for spending thousands of dollars worth of your valuable time, > and of your company's valuable time. Should this work be accepted, I'm > sure this expenditure will place you on the map of major Kicad > contributors. > > > If your work causes some folks to have to upgrade their hardware, I > wonder if we should not simply take the position that your monetary > expenditure dwarfs any expenditure that some users may have to make in > order to upgrade their hardware, even if those hardware upgrade costs > were in the thousands of dollars. > > Admittedly I may have a fairly forward attitude about this, but I just > get pained when folks whine about the cost of having to buy hardware to > run Kicad. The software is not free to everyone, so why should the > hardware be? Perhaps some of this will evolve away as we get a higher > percentage of corporate users vs. hobbyists. > > > I am sure several of us will look forward to finding the time to begin > reviewing your work. I am one of those. > > > Thank you for giving us a preview. > > > Dick
Well said. I also think that we have to move forward as does hardware. Graphics should be handled by the graphics hardware. Anyone who claims that graphic cards are not for 2d, take a look at some modern pcb designing tool, the era of tango 2.3 has expired. Rok _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
