I spite of my disdain for nagware, I'll tolerate this under the following conditions:
The current canvas is not already on one of the gal canvases. If the user is already using a gal canvas, a dialog to inform the user about the gal canvas is silly. It's a one shot dialog that never appears again. If the gal canvas crashes, the user isn't going to have to manually edit a configuration file to restore the legacy canvas. This requirement may prevent us from setting the opengl canvas as the default so the solution may not be as easy as it seems. On 12/31/2017 07:34 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > +1 to the startup dialog idea. > > I think we also need to set reasonable transparencies in the layers so that > it looks more like the default legacy canvas. I don' think this is necessary given that the gal canvas layer colors and transparencies are completely user configurable but I'm not opposed to a default layer color/transparency configuration that looks more like the legacy canvas. > >> On 31 Dec 2017, at 10:09, Clemens Koller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2017-12-31 03:53, Jon Evans wrote: >>> I know this would be work for someone to do and maybe I'd offer to do it if >>> the project leaders approve... >>> What about a one-time pop-up when first installing a release 5.0 that >>> appears if the config says the user was using legacy canvas, telling them >>> about how to switch and that they should check it out? >>> >>> -Jon >> >> +1 >> An initial start-up dialog to setup the "users default" after a first >> install or after a "reset Kicad to defaults, as I messed something up I >> don't remember" seems very helpful to me. If OpenGL might still crash in >> rare cases, warn the user in advance and explain, how he can safely step >> back from using OpenGL in case it doesn't work and how to file a bug >> report... >> >> Regards, >> >> Clemens >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
