Mastodawn

Shoutout to FreeCAD having silly rendering issues around transparency. That's literally my desktop wallpaper (default wallpaper in recent version of kde/plasma) shining through the window.

edit: this might be a kde bug, see https://critter.cafe/@irina/116238645215664128

edit2: and to make myself clear: this is not intended as criticism of either freecad or kde/plasma. it brought me some joy, especially in this particular instance

edit3: the issue seems to go away entirely if I disable wobbly windows in desktop effects in kde

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s�d Mar 16

@ar https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/6177

It's so sad that somehow FreeCAD has both super enthusiastic user base, but at the same time such basic bugs that can't be resolved in over four years.

I personally gave up trying to learn or use FreeCAD, the transparency issues and the to me pretty confusing module system ultimately pushed me to OnShape instead.

UI: Grid is transparent and displaying the background behind it · Issue #6177 · FreeCAD/FreeCAD

Issue imported from https://tracker.freecad.org/view.php?id=4594 Reporter: dudo Date submitted: 3/10/2021 FreeCAD version: 0.2 Category: Bug Status: new Tags: Coin3d Original report text Grid lines...

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✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 16

@pl @ar back in 2016 or so FreeCAD was so aggressively hostile to using it (I only give an application one more chance chances after it crashes and corrupts my savefile) that I decided to spend years and thousands of $ out of my own pocket improving another CAD. it was the right decision I think

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ari

@whitequark @pl I used that CAD for a long while specifically because FreeCAD was unusable/hostile back then, and the improvements you made to the other CAD helped, but FreeCAD has since become a lot more usable for me (especially around 0.20 and after).

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✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 16

@ar @pl so I've heard yeah