2008/3/25, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:16 -0300, Adrian Pardini wrote: > > > > In my opinion, the projects with highest priority are the ones > > > that address obvious reasons people don't use gEDA. > > > > I totally agree with you in this. I wanted to work in xgsch2pcb > > because most of my students prefer kicad and I know for sure they will > > start to use gEDA with just a little better xgsch2pcb. > > If you can get any of them to explain why, or what features they prefer > in other software, we'd of course be interested to hear.
As discussed earlier one of the main reasons is that it doesn't work with windows. Previous courses shown that a uniform experience and interface among different platforms helps a lot. I chose kicad because almost everybody uses windows at their homes or a cyber-cafe. I have to bring my own computer, so no windows, and nobody complained about that. But, I they take kicad with them there's almost no difference when it comes to do something if they use windows or some flavour of Linux. Something I really like to have is very big buttons, *with text*, like wxMaxima. That proved to be very useful when one is new to the software and doesn't know what to do, or how. Cheers, Adrian. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
