On 11/7/2013 12:36 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > On 11/05/2013 07:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 11/5/2013 4:33 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: >>> Does anyone have anything against disabling switching (remove its hotkey >>> and menu entry) to Cairo backend? I think it may only give a bad >>> impression to users, as it is too slow for comfortable work. I am going >>> to maintain it in case that there are changes in the GAL, but as it was >>> said in the beginning - its main purpose is for PDF generation or >>> printing. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Orson >>> >> >> I'm fine with disabling it. It's not useful for display rendering even >> on my home computer which is very fast. I can't image how slow it must >> be on an older system or laptop. Is there any other reason to Cairo >> rendering around? >> > > It could be used as a fallback renderer, but right now it is too slow > for that, so - in fact, there is no sensible reason. > > Regards, > Orson > >
Doesn't it make more sense to fallback to the wxDC rendering? It's known to work well except under certain conditions on OSX. You cannot perform any editing other than using the P&S router so I'm not sure that it's very useful as a fallback. Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
