Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Bob Paddock <bpaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 January 2005 10:15 pm, Daniel Nilsson wrote:

> I reached the conclusion that for PCB to survive in the long term a
> GUI based on a more modern widget set then the Athena widets will
> probably be required. This is in order to attract new developers to
> have an interest in improving and expanding the GUI. Doing a little
> research and following similar discussions on the GTK list I think
> baseing a layout program on the GnomeCanvas would be fairly
> straightforward and should give good performance. I have had plans for
> a while now to write a simple "proof of concept" GUI for PCB based on
> this but it seems like you would disagree that this is the right
> path. So my question is to you (and others), you you think there is a
> need for a new GUI and what widget set should it be based on in that
> case (besides GTK+ and the Gnome widgets) ?

Marvin Dickens Wrote:

>QT is a good choice for this because for the most
>part, it write once and compile anywhere.

Neither of those lend themselves to running on Windows.

While we here might not like the idea of Windows, it is a requirement of the 
real world.  Last week I was told at work "We are a windows shop here, use 
windows programs."  They did not want me to use DOS XCOPY to copy stuff to 
their network drive, in their mind that screws up their network.  :-(

The wxWidget set is well supported, and cross platform, also most of the work 
is already done for us by looking at KICAD.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/

http://www.wxdigets.com/