On Wednesday 08 February 2017 13:32:14 Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:28:16PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 February 2017 13:18:39 Chris Pavlina wrote: > > > As a Linux user for many years now, that has not been my experience. > > > > You are a happy guy! > > I am the author of MSEide+MSEgui where users expect that it perfectly > > runs on every Windows, Linux and OpenBSD version on any hardware with > > every possible window manager in the universe, I know what I am talking > > about. :-) > > I don't think you do, because you're using your experience developing an > IDE to claim that CAD software shouldn't need OpenGL. That is a very > basic requirement for anything of a graphical nature. > Not for 2D. OpenGL is not well suited for 2D graphical applications. I made an OpenGL backend for MSEgui and have some experience.
But you probably misunderstood. I only wanted to say that in the tests I did with KiCad on different Linux boxes I had to select the legacy canvas to be able to work with acceptable performance for zooming and redrawing. I switch to OpenGL when I need the advanced functionality and back to legacy when the snappier performance is more important. The 23 years old Orcad on the K6 Windows95 box is even snappier BTW. I thought that I should report the experience of a first time KiCad Linux user because comments were requested. I am sorry if I offended you. Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
