On 11/07/2013 11:59 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > 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
What is a fallback renderer? i.e. when would it be used? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
