Re: gEDA-user: xaw vs. gtk future?

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No need to do away with the keyboard shortcuts -- they are also
> valuable.  But the newbie generally needs to use menus when he is
> learning the program.  As an aside, one of the common complaints about
> PCB is that the learning curve is very steep.  Introducing menus which
> work according to the way people expect these days would go a long way
> towards answering that complaint.

Note that this is why Motif was so strict about how the user interface
worked.  Menus were standardized across applications, and ALL hotkeys
were done as menu accelerators - so the menus acted as documentation.

OTOH, once you get used to the unusual key bindings, you can work more
efficiently than with a newbie-oriented setup.