Re: gEDA-user: PCB HID project

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> > The HID pcb currently supports a Lesstif interface, which is very
> > different than the Xaw or Gtk interfaces (yes, this is intentional).
> > We're working on re-integrating the Gtk interface (which should be the
> > same as before).
>
> And could you write something more about the reason behind using 
> Lesstiff and Xaw in this project? Why is GTK+2 not good enough for 
> you? Most of the code using Xaw/Lesstiff/Athena/Tk I saw was some old 
> legacy/proprietary/commercial (or all three together) crap.
>
> I'm not trying to evangelize GTK here but I'm curious why you choose 
> other (not really modern) toolkits rather than the new ones (which 
> should be better).

  GTK is a bloated pig.  I'd not call that "better" by any measure.  
There's nothing legacy/proprietary/commercial about Lesstif, Athena, or 
Tk.  They're all available, free, well-understood, 
well-documented...and screaming fast even on very old hardware.

  Don't assume that just because something is new, or because it's used 
in the Linux world, that it's automatically better.

  That said, I totally love the GTK version of PCB.  It'd just be even 
better without the bloat.

           -Dave

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