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Re: gEDA-user: why some skip KiCAD and gEDA
Am 10.09.2011 um 13:35 schrieb Stefan Salewski:
A lot of documentation can be bad.
Ha! Now that's exactly the right answer to somebody offering writing
documentation.
Consider the toys from the big company with the damaged fruit: A
reason
for the success of the toys is that documentations seems to be not
needed.
That's possible for an EDA tool as well, of course. It requires an
intuitive design. Self-explaining features, pure technical relations
being hidden and automatic, everything connected so you can't miss
something or do something wrong, perhaps integrated tutorials
(SolidWorks does that).
But how close is gEDA here? To be honest, I think gEDA couldn't be
farther away. It can't even agree on an equivalent GUI design for
both major tools, gschem and pcb. Instead of doing something about
that, lots of discussions about picky details on keyboard
"accelerators". Using a keyboard to do anything but writing text is a
thing of the past, to start with.
To get an idea of a fairly intuitive tool, have a look at Fritzing.
Abhijit, please go ahead. Fresh tutorials and HowTos are most
welcome. And please let me know when it's time to put the G-code
exporter HowTo there. In case you don't want to do this yourself.
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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