>> Actually, Kicad may be the logical tool for those users since it runs >> on both Windoze and Linux. > > Actually, it's terrible for those users. They immediately need to cope > with the baggage of setting up a project. I suppose with windoze they > might be used to it because it is common there. Sometimes I think they > (windows stuff) went out of their way to add baggage. We should be > promote an escape from the complexity.
Interesting point. > You should be able to start with a schematic, or whatever, and have the > project grow from there. The project manager should take care of > organizing it, using common unix tools under the hood. Yeah, I like this point. Therefore, the project manager should just create a default .gafrc and other config files in the user's directory when he starts a new project (pushes the "new" button). I'd suggest that any project manager should also provide easy access to the various config files used by the various gEDA tools. It should also make it easy to modify them without the user needing to know all about the internals of this or that gEDA program. > Some files will be generated by the project manager. It is important > that these files are nice looking and editable. An advanced user > should be able to edit the underlying files with any appropriate tool, > and the result should still work with the project manager. You should > be able to easily bring files in and out. I like it... Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
