Re: gEDA-user: fork of pcb ?

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

The problem lies not with the experienced user (i.e. readers of
geda-user), but rather with newbies who tend to be kind of clueless,
and will just Google on the name of the program when they want
specific usage help.  Making their lives easier is a good thing for
everybody. 

For these user interface issues one needs to keep in mind the needs of
extreme newbies.  Think about freshmen in college as the target
audience.  Also think about the number of frustrated, anguished posts
we get in geda-user from some users.  If we could just say "Google on
gpcb and go away", [1] life might be a little less stressful.

Stuart

[1]  Not that we would . . . .

> 
> 
> google 'linux pcb' and you cannot miss PCB ... the program.
> 
> phil
> 
> 
> John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Stuart beat me to this.
> > 
> > > the advantage that when newbies Google on gpcb, they will get hits about
> the
> > program
> > > itself, instead of 1e6 links to general info about PCB manufacture.
> > 
> > a prefix or suffix to the name 'PCB' would be very useful in
> > performing searchs.
> > 
> > (* jcl *)
> > 
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