Depending on how drawing is implemented on other platforms this could cause a major performance impact. The slowness on OS X was due to the fact that the dots are not just pixels, but really rendered and antialiased content (what obviously has much more impact on a HiDPI Retina display).
Before my change the naive drawing (each line/circle in a single “call”) was really bad. Just a warning, but maybe this is not such a big deal on Linux/Windows... Regards, Bernhard > On 14.01.2016, at 20:40, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, I just mean using the same style in both, either way. I don't really > care which, though I have a slight preference for dots myself. > > Minor side note: I do almost wish the dots would become something like > little crosses when you zoom in. They're nice when zoomed out, but when > they are spaced very sparsely, they become almost invisible. > Alternatively, maybe the intensity of the color could be dialed back a > bit when zoomed out, to reflect the increased average intensity over the > displayed area? > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 02:37:13PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 1/14/2016 1:58 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>> Yeah, I'll be difficult too - it looks Bad now, very distracting. The >>> legacy grid color was meant for use with a dot grid, not a line grid, so >>> it has to be brighter. When you use it for a line grid, it's really >>> garish. >>> >>> I think that the grid color ought to be customizable like the layer >>> colors - and unless we want to make separate legacy and GAL grid color >>> options (which I really do not recommend), perhaps we should unify the >>> grid types? >> >> If by unify you mean use lines in the legacy canvas in place of dots, >> I'm not at all thrilled about that. The line grid is too distracting >> for normal use even when you dial back the color (since Tom's patch). I >> would prefer we figure out away to use dots (or some facsimile there of) >> on the gal canvas. I would be willing to guess that I'm not alone in >> that preference. >> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I know, I am difficult… :) >>>> >>>> In GAL canvas grid was almost invisible up to now. >>>> >>>> With one of the last commit it obviously respects grid color which it >>>> didn’t before… yes, it is very visible now: >>>> >>>> >>>> Is it intended to stay this way? >>>> OK, I can see the grid very well now, but I hardly can see the ratsnest >>>> lines now… :) >>>> >>>> I have seen in the code that a “dot” grid (using small rectangles) seems >>>> to be implemented… any special reasons why this is not used? >>>> Should this maybe get a configuration option? >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Bernhard >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
