gEDA: Should a freshly installed geda behave like this?

[Magnus Danielson <cfmd@swipnet.se>]

Hi folks!

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!

When returning to gEDA from a time of abscence (most people would say I am
always abscent) I was unable to open up gschem properly. So, I cleared the
table to make a totally new and fresh install from the Debian packages (this is
an Debian/unstable machine). Regardless of how I try I fail like this:

gEDA/gschem version 20030525
gEDA/gschem comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more details.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details.

Could not find a gschemrc file

Which isn't very helpfull. Trying to dig around the Debian packages I don't
find an appropriate INSTALL description - the README stuff refers to it but it
is not there. OK, I can fetch it from the CVS, but let's just play the game of
me being a stupid user (most people would fall for that anyway).

A better approach then keeping things failing this greatly would be to (in
increasing degree of smartness and smoothness).

1) Inform the user of where a good template may be.

2) Just copy one in and ask to restart.

3) Don't fail at all (quite broken style actually) and run on with system
   default (which should be standard behaviour anyway).

4) Create a user-variant (like in 2) but also directly run with it.

Either way, the current behaviour isn't very helpfull. We want people to use it
and this isn't smoothness embodied.

PS. Where is a good user gschemrc file anyway?

Cheers,
Magnus - still with a *BROKEN* gEDA installation