Re: gEDA-user: Help with creating schematics that can be netlisted/placed via PCB

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/2/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geeeezz -- PCB has got to be the all-time hardest program **EVER** to use.

That's exactly what I thought.  PCB is one of those programs where you
*must* use the manual to get anywhere.   And I would have given up
without Bill Wilson's tutorial.

> I cannot fathom how anyone can actually work with this program.  :-(

After you learn it, you don't notice the idiosyncrasies as much.  
Therefore, folks who have knowledge to fix the user interface are not
inclined to.

> Are there any plans of modernizing the user interface so that it
> actually kinda sorta half-way conforms to some kind of user interface
> standard?

There was a Gtk port.  I don't know the status of it.
 
> The learning curve for this program is rediculously steep.  :(

Yes. But it's only hard for the first board.  Follow Bill Wilson's
tutorial step-by-step.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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