What about simply removing the legacy canvas preemptively from the development branch? gal-only is pretty usable by now and it might reduce development workload for new features.
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/2/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> I'd like to start having a look at how I can organize the preferences for >> pcbnew, having mostly finished in eeschema. (A few things remain to be >> tweaked >> and will probably be done at the same time as pcbnew, to keep things in >> sync). >> >> The problem of legacy preferences vs GAL preferences needs to be addressed. >> How >> do we want to handle that? At this point, I'm not sure what the timeline is >> for >> actual removal of legacy - should I wait until we do that? > > This is most likely going to be a while so you wont be able to remove > the legacy canvas settings until we completely remove the legacy canvas > from the source. > >> >> If not, I want to try to merge options as much as possible. There are some >> things that are duplicated between the two, which I'd like to fix. But the >> bigger question is: how should we present to the user things that are only >> available in one or the other? >> >> I could simply make sections on the preferences pages: "Legacy canvas only", >> "OpenGL or Cairo canvas only". That's ugly and makes me cringe, but I can't >> think of anything better. Two separate, parallel preferences systems like we >> have right now just won't do. Thoughts? > > Even though separating the settings is probably going to be ugly, it's > the most prudent way to go in terms of effort. If they are organized > this way, it should be fairly easy to remove them when we finally get > around to dumping the legacy canvas. > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
