gEDA-user: Forward annotation too complicated

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1) One changes part in gschem
2) He has to save the schematic
3) Run gsch2pcb
4) Load netlist again into PCB
5) Load newly added/changed parts into paste buffer
6) Paste the paste buffer
7) Find which parts were changed and put them to their place

This is too complicated. Why can't it be that
1) One changes part in gschem
2) Presses forward annotate button, which saves the schematic, runs
gsch2pcb, loads netlist into the PCB file and replaces changed
components in the place they are / puts newly added components to upper
left corner

Does anyone have experience with Eagle or Orcad? Is forward annotation
there as complicated as in gEDA?

On the other hand, I once tried to save Eagle board into Gerber and gave
up. In PCB it's dead simple - Print, Gerber, OK.  In Eagle some very
complicated and sophisticated dialogue came to me with million of
buttons, text entry lines and cryptic labels and I couldn't make sense
of it even after I tried to run in couple of times - it never did
anything useful.

The gerber outpus have confusing names in Eagle.  As opposed to PCB
where they are self-descriptive. The first thing that comes to my mind
when I see .gbr ending is Gerber.

What I also don't like on Eagle is how it fills polygons - it makes lots
of lines and the filling is still not perfect. Which just unnecessarily
increases the file size and obfuscates the file internal structure. PCB
produces crisps, geometrically perfect output as compared to Eagle's
approximation.

PCB is an example how Gerber was meant to be used. Eagle is an example
how to cripple it.

CL<