Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:36 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 12:20 -0800, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
> > Here's one of each. :)
> > 
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here:
> 
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git
> git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours
> 
> configure with --enable-gl
> 
> (Build).
> 
> Does the GL rendering work on MacOS-X?
> 
> I know its cheating to pass off the rendering of a not-yet merged branch
> as a representative screen-shot, but I suspect if you use it, plus my
> dark colour scheme, (and perhaps switch the solder-mask on?) the
> rendering of that board will look awesome. I can send the colour scheme
> if you want.
> 
> I personally think gschem looks better (in screen-shots at lest) with a
> light background. I would zoom in a little more - avoiding the
> dead-space in the top right corner - or zoom out to show the whole page.
> 
> Sometimes I find the component chooser or attribute editor (with an
> interesting component selected in either) adds some feel for what the
> program looks like in operation.
> 
> Regarding both screen-shots - if you set the GTK theme on your box to
> better match the native OS-X look and feel, that would also make the
> programs come across better.

Hints here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080309171359879

and the "gnome-themes-glossy-p" theme:

http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/wordpress_new/wordpress/?p=5


Presentation is everything, we might be writing free - and open source
software, but we still have to _sell_ it.

Best wishes,

-- 
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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