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RE: gEDA-user: PCB GTK version...

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> The future is now, and an opengl card is cheap (even in my 
> country). I really have no words when I see the 3d rendering 
> of a board in the Kicad, and sometimes that is really usefull. 
> gEDA and PCB are professional tools and I really dont think 
> that a pre-requisite to them is to run on old machines. MHO, 
> of course.

The problem is that GTK and Qt are over-complicated and badly designed.
GTK also has too many dependencies.  GTK redraws slowly even on my
1.6GHz Athlon (though I haven't tried pcb).  In spite of these problems
they're a good way to tap into the new functions in X below them.

Which is considered most important is up to pcb developers.