Re: gEDA-user: quick question

[kmk <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Dickens wrote:

> Go back through this thread - We posted some of our experiences and 
> thoughts about Varicad.

Ok, found them.



> Making the statement that it is doubtful that Alibre

The statement was refering to varicad.


> Exactly, what is the connection between 
> a company who demos their product in Flash
> and their commitment to *any* particular operating system?

Flash players are not readily available for some systems. In particular
there is no native viewer in my distribution (debian) and macromedia
fails to provide a plugin:
http://www.macromedia.com/de/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/

On second thought I searched a little harder and found a download page
for an older version of the player. So I finally can view flash movies
with mozilla based browsers :-)

I decided to try the trial version of varicad. It needed a bit of admin
persuasion to install. The package requires kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 but
debian only provided kdelibs4:3.3.2-6.4 with sarge before they switched
to kdelibs4c2a for etch. So I had to use "--foce-all" to get it
installed anyway. Since I already have updated most of my system to etch
I had to downgrade almost all my k-Windows apps. Luckily my desktop is
based on gnome...

From what I have seen yet, the GUI of varicad is quite intuitive. Much
better than the autacad clones I have seen before. Working with 3D is
easier than 2D with qcad (!). I think, I will shell out the money for a
license and hope that the program does "as advertised" :-)

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