Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:40:18PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I have seen this, too. But when it looks like Motif, does it feel
> > like Motif, too? Last time, I tried such an app, the answer was
> > no. :-(
> 
> As a Motif developer at the time, no, it didn't.  We used it anyway.
> 
> But that's why *I* prefer the option that the GUI is abstracted away
> from the application in an application-specific way, and various
> interface layers can be added to swap out GUIs.  The menu system in
> pcb, for example, is data driven now, so you should be able to drop in
> ANY menu system, as long as it can call the relevent callbacks (which
> still use XEvents, but abstracting that out should be trivial if/when
> needed).

I agree with DJ on this one.  Some clean architecting now has a potentially
big payoff later.  It also has the advantage of making it easier
for people to contribute internal features without needing to know the
gory details of, for example, Xaw!

-Dan

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