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Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion
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Hi!
Am 11.01.2005 um 04:15 schrieb Daniel Nilsson:
While working on fixing the problems with the mode buttons only
working on some combinations of X and window managers I realized how
old the Athena Widgets are by now.
It should be notet here, that the purpose of Athena Widgets was to
demonstrate the usage of the X Toolkit Intrinsics Xt.
As other people noticed, finding
good documentation is a little hard but more importantly getting help
is not easy at all. I asked for help in a few related newsgroups but
the answers I got were not terribly helpful.
Since Xaw is so ugly, almost nobody learns Xaw and X Toolkit
Intrinsics. Everybody is attracted by the nice Look of Qt or gtk, but
both of them are not Xt based but have their own basic framework.
Motif is, as well as Xaw, X11 Toolkit based, but as a comercial product
lots of people prefer something free. Since Motif is almost as old as
Xaw, lots of newer UI features are missing there, too.
What I really hate about all those so called widget sets is that alost
each of them does have its own framework. So it's not only learning the
new UI controls, but also learning the new framework.
Allthough I personally would use Motif, for pcb I would suggest to use
gtk, because gschem & co are also based on gtk. This was, pcb could
benefit from gschem developers and vice versa.
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
Allthough I am in favour of using Gtk for Pcb, I would not like to toss
Gnome into the boat, here.
73, Mario
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