Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brendan Howell wrote:
> Hi gEDAns,

We looked at easily a dozen different GUI frameworks before
> chosing Qt.
>   We don't really see Fritzing as competing with the other open 
> source/free EDA tools.  Our target audience is largely hobbyists, 
> students, designers and artists: essentially, non-engineers. 
>   Our long-term goal is to support file interchange with other EDAs, 
> especially gEDA and KiCAD so that as users reach the limits of what is 
> possible with Fritzing, they can move their project over to more 
> professional tools.
>   With that in mind, it would be great to collaborate. 

Thanks,  I'll sign up on your list/forum.

  Although we don't use gEDA as a backend, I've learned an
> awful lot by reading your code, docs and discussions. 

We might though if the GUI coding is as easy as you say.

But, if using GTK along with Qt is trouble, we might just copy
some of your UI design as settable in beginner mode geda_manager,
a glue code for projects that is only half baked as yet.

John Griessen
-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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