I'm just a bad user but... 

Why isn't Legacy canvas ditched in the development branch and focus efforts in 
the GAL one exclusively? 

What about OpenGL and slow in certain platforms? What OpenGL version is KiCad 
using currently? I fail to see it. Damn, even MESA is getting OpenGL 4.3+ too. 
Can newer OpenGL features provide performance improvements too? 

Windows Intel graphics are known to have an awful OpenGL implementation. Would 
using a OGL->D3D wrapper be an issue? 

Would using a library like BGFX be an issue? Can the switch traits lots of 
coding and rewriting?

What are the issues to massively remove all the cruft in KiCad code and develop 
by thinking in the future? 

What's going to happen with KiCad 5.0? Personally, I would prefer a new one 
with massive usability, performance and feature improvements than another small 
one if that slows the progress to make KiCad a lot better EDA tool for the 
future. 

On June 7, 2016 5:31:32 PM CEST, "Nick Østergaard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am looking forward to "better" things :)
>
>2016-06-07 17:12 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <[email protected]>:
>> Heh :)
>>
>> I'm working on the replacement feature. There is definitely a strong
>argument
>> in favor of writing the replacement before removing the original, so
>I'm going
>> to do that. Could be a couple days, I have to spread it out with Real
>Work now.
>> I promise it'll be better than what we had :)
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:20:56AM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>> > Also, I really feel like I should point out - it's not feasible to
>gather user
>>> > input for _every change_. That's how we got to the point we're at,
>really -
>>> > lots of "this would be useful for _me_", so it gets thrown in, and
>then we have
>>> > a hodgepodge of incoherent "features" each used by one person too
>fond of it to
>>> > remove it.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Sorry, couldn't resist: https://xkcd.com/1172/
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Marco Ciampa
>>>
>>> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
>>>
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>>>
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