Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:56:54PM +0100, Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> Hi!
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> Am 11.01.2005 um 04:24 schrieb DJ Delorie:
> >Better would be to isolate the GUI parts so we can swap out GUIs at
> >build time.

What about making Options -> GUI where you would have a radio button for
the GUI? You could switch it back and forth and look at the program change
UI dynamically. It would be wonderful :)

And we could write out new Nobel Prize category: for achieving Pcb compilation
:)

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> Other developers have tried this one, but noone really managed to 
> achive this goal.
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> A GUI is not just the look but also the feel, Especially the feel is 
> that much different between many systems that there is no usable least 
> common denominator. The result are applications, that look like Windows 

One friend said: I use Eagle and not use geda, because geda feels differently
than Eagle.

> on Win-Boxes, look like MacOS on Macintoshes and look like Gtk on 
> X11-Systems, but they often do not feel like they look.

My father has Czech GIMP. I got English GIMP. I am unable to work with his GIMP
much well because instead of "Layers" it reads "Vrstvy". Czech is my mother
tongue, but relearning different language of the names makes some friction.

I guess the same will be with PCB. Some distro maker turns the interface
completely inside out because it will look 1% more fancier and feel 2% more
cozy, and the other distro users will look at it as if it came from Mars.

Cl<
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> 73, Mario
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