Re: gEDA-user: interesting links

[al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

quote 1 ====
gEDA is a suite of several tools (some of them independent) 
around EDA tasks. It has quite a long history and is 
extensively developed. The GUI however is quite cumbersome and 
outdated.
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quote 2 ====
KiCad is also a suite of tools, but more tightly integrated. 
It's much younger that gEDA, but nevertheless seems to cover 
the whole tool chain. The UI is very nice,
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Interesting .. I find the Kicad interface rather annoying.  It 
is the same kind of annoyance of typical windoze programs.
It even comes with "zip" files!  It appears that "outdated" is a 
code word meaning "suitable for more advanced users who need 
more flexibility".

He does have a point ..  There are interface issues with gEDA 
that really should be taken care of.  They are subtle, related 
to how the tools work together, but fixing them could make for 
a big improvement.

In the windoze world, and unfortunately to an increasing extent 
in the Linux world too, there is a tendency to think all kinds 
of ugliness can be hidden under a GUI.  Doing so is a HUGE 
mistake.

So he blows his point.  or does he?

KiCad fills a need that gEDA doesn't.  It provides a migration 
path to free software while maintaining the windoze style.

Somebody needs to make a translation tool, making it possible to 
translate kicad files to geda when they outgrow kicad.


Apparently the "whole tool chain" means schematic and layout, 
and nothing else.




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