gEDA-dev: [Re: is all EDA as bad as gEDA/pcb?]

[Peter TB Brett]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 06:01:54 Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:58:06AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > I would drop autoscroll too.
> >
> > Note that I didn't add that to the lesstif HID :-)
>
> You know, the problem with the GTK hid is that it's prettier but
> not as well maintained as the Lesstif hid.  I tried it first before
> I found out that "nobody" uses it.  I think we either need to fix it
> up or at least warn package maintainers that it's not the preferred
> HID, no matter how gnome-y your distro is.
>

I use it.  Or rather, I would use it, if it worked.  As it stands, the joint 
facts that I can't stand lesstif (sorry) and that the GTK HID gets broken 
(again) on a weekly basis just means that I don't feel motivated to use or 
fix PCB.

A year ago, the GTK HID worked, and worked well.  I used it to develop quite a 
complicated board, and was happy about it.  For the last 12 months, it seems 
like every time I've tried to even *build* PCB with the GTK HID I've run into 
problems.

It very much feels like the active PCB developers can never be bothered to 
test whether their changes have broken the GTK HID -- presumably because they 
don't care.

                                 Peter

P.S. There's nothing wrong with the name of the program -- stick to your 
guns. ;)


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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