Re: gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code on gEDA Webpages

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxx>]

[snip]
>al davis wrote:
>> Maybe he would rather use something that is truly-free, GPL?
>> Avoid proprietary lock-in?


	Okay, my mistake; it did seems kind of odd (to me) to advocate
a proprietary, vendor lock-in program here.

	All the "I like my GUI better than your GUI" discussions are so
old and has been discussed to death on the mailing lists.  If people
want to affect positive changes, they should contribute a quality patch
that the majority can/will accept or (as a minimum) submit something to
the bug/feature trackers. 


>[jg]And his wart list was a great set of pointers
>to the things that stop mainstream users from getting started with gEDA.   The
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	I'm dubious that this be achieved without more active developers.
If people are really interested in this goal, please consider contributing
(quality code/patches/documentation) instead of expecting (and I'm seeing
trends that people are "demanding") that the rather busy developers to
do everything.


>configurable menus  cleanup Dan is working on in PCB will  get us a lot closer
>to "state of the GUI art", and he's maybe suggesting gschem could use some of 
>that...with SwitcherCAD as a GUI design model.


"state of the GUI art" is in the eye of the beholder; nobody agrees
on this.

Gah! and if I don't sound like a broken record player already
(maybe if I indent this funny it will resonate better?):

	It really does NOT help to post wish/issue lists in the mailing
	list without submitting the requests to the bug/feature tracker
	as well.  The lists will be forgotten and rediscovered a later
	date (with the associated and tiresome flame fest).

I will update the mailing list welcome info to make the above message
more front and center.

								-Ales



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