gEDA-user: D-BUS and gEDA?

[Peter Brett]

Hi folks,

Just an idea I had off the top of my head while I was mulling over the problem 
of integrating pcb and gschem together: why not make them both expose D-BUS 
interfaces?

D-BUS is becoming a fairly standard thing on the Linux desktop these days: the 
HAL supports it, KDE4 and the next version of GNOME are both going to use it 
for application-to-application communication, and it's portable too.

My idea was that clicking a button in gschem will start a new instance of PCB, 
and synchronise with it using D-BUS.  Selecting a component or piece of net 
in gschem will trigger a D-BUS call to select and pan to the corresponding 
feature in the PCB window, and vice versa.

The only problem is forward- and back-annotation with this setup... gnetlist 
runs on even a fast computer tend to take a _long_ time with the sort of 
circuits I'm accustomed to working with (2000+ component pins).  Are there 
any plans in the future to make gschem netlist-aware so that real-time 
forward- and back-annotation will be possible to implement (delete a 
component in PCB, it deletes it in gschem)?

Peter

P.S. Cambridge University are strongly considering switching to KiCAD from 
gEDA as the standard EDA toolset, because they like the capture to layout 
integration better!

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