Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:06 -0500, al davis wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:44, Ben Jackson wrote:
> > I think gEDA has some big warts compared to the
> > commercial offerings 
> 
> I think gEDA has some small ones that look big.
> They prevent people from seeing where gEDA is superior.
> FIxing them will result in amazing return.

Agreed,

Ben - if its possible to quantify, or describe gEDA's warts, then please
do so. A great deal of improvement in the gEDA suite has been made based
on constructive feedback on usability issues, missing or broken features
etc.

I personally consider two views:

1) Things which matter to me, get in my way or I'd like to see happen,

2) Features which prevent me being able to recommend gEDA to some new 
   person as being better than "X", or "Y" they are currently using.

For me (as examples):

Item 1) covers stuff like back-probing, concurrent use of gattrib +
gschem, and some mouse usability things I already fixed. Perhaps
multiple gschem views on the same schematic, and a parts database.

Item 2) covers stuff which I probably wouldn't use as much like a
project manager, or IDE, being able to auto-complete, or validate
user-input to attributes, such as "footprint", etc. (Ok - I would use
that one).

Regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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