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Author SHA1 Message Date
jean-pierre charras 80cf4ec5cb Add comments about SVG import. 2019-03-11 19:25:52 +01:00
John Beard e856a7a09c Disable legacy canvas on GTK3
This make the use of legacy canvas on GTK3 a default-off
advanced config. Legacy is substantially broken on GTK3
and is of basically no use at all to general users on this
platform.

If the program starts with legacy canvas in the config,
it is forced into a GAL mode, as otherwise it could happen
that the user is stuck and unable to get into pcbnew to change
the setting.

Fixes: lp:1803156
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1803156
2018-12-28 11:36:09 -05:00
John Beard 892f7cf8ff Make SVG import an advanced config, not a compile option.
This demos the advanced config and allows no-recompile switching
of the SVG importer. It also allows the import manager to be
tested more completely.
2018-12-28 11:36:09 -05:00
John Beard a33a8292a4 Run-time config for advanced options
This can be used for "advanced" options which are for developers
to use for feature-flags and other configuration. Run time config
has some advantages over preprocessor defines:

* Can be changed without recompilation
   * Sensitive to XDG_CONFIG_DIR, so flipping configs is easy
* Better compiler coverage (less conditionally compiled code means
  less chance to break a different configuration). Also better
  analysis coverage.
* Type safe config params
* Centralised documentation: it's in doxygen, in one place

No advanced config should be required by a general users. If a general
user does use one of these configs, it's probably because:

* There is a bug and one of these configs is a workaround
* A config in here is generally useful and should be moved into the
  relevant application config and given UI.

For now, the config is read-only, and is read from the
"kicad_advanced" config file in the normal config dir.
2018-12-28 11:36:08 -05:00