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



>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-geda-user@xxxxxxxx on behalf of Xtian Xultz
>Sent: Tue 26/07/2005 19:52
>To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB GTK version...
> 
>Em Ter 26 Jul 2005 11:47, Robert Thorpe escreveu:
>> > -----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.
>
>Sorry if I say here a complete bullshit, I assume that I dont have enough 
>skills to speak about it. But I understand, is that GTK and QT are fullfill 
>of features to help the programmer, and Xaw is poor in features and the 
>programmer must do it by hand. If so, it is easy to say that Xaw have almost 
>no bugs compared to QT or GTK. It is easy to say that my program below is bug 
>free

I didn't actually say that Qt or GTK lack in features, they certainly don't.  Many of those features may be useful to the programmer.  I said they're badly designed, which is a separate criticism.

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