>-----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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