+1.

(I used legacy for 6 months because I thought the only difference was in 
rendering.  I didn’t realise all the tools were different too….)

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 30 Dec 2017, at 21:13, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Pleeeeeeease!
> 
> It makes no sense to use a canvas we call "legacy" as default. GAL may
> still not have 100% feature parity to allow _removing_ legacy but it's
> totally ready to be the default.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 08:51:53PM +0000, José Ignacio wrote:
>> Since the GAL is pretty much feature complete (I have used it exclusively
>> for the last year and a half) and the Cairo canvas has much improved
>> performance (it is *significantly* faster than legacy on my systems),
>> should pcbnew make the switch to have Cairo as the default canvas?
>> 
>> I understand OpenGL may still be undesirable because some defective or
>> misconfigured systems may have crashing issues with kicad preventing the
>> user to switch away from OpenGL, but that may even not be the case anymore.
> 
> 
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