On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:31:20 +0100
Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But in general I am against dramatic rewrites of already running
> > software and I think that incremental efforts should go into
> > bugfixing and missing features.
>
> You are right, but on the other hand qt4 is beginning to be a serious
> alternative for cross platform development of open source software.
> It is not likely to happen that geda will change gui, but maybe the
> guys coding pcb would consider it if they ever want to move away from
> athena.
After this was discussed on this list a few weeks ago, I started a Gtk port
of PCB which short some features, several dialogs, cleanups, and a problem or
two to solve is running for me.
It's something I hoped to bring up on the list in a couple of weeks because
I'm really not ready to throw it out there right now or talk about it much
(I'm spending my free time working on it). But since the subject is brought
up again I'm mentioning it. I will say for now that I hope, assuming there's
interest, that it's something that can ultimately be maintained under the
same Sourceforge management structure (Harry et al) as the current
PCB since it's something I just decided to do and is not intended to be
a fork at all.
Anyway, I hope to have something anybody interested can evaluate before
too many more weeks and in the meantime, here's a current screenshot
(using the H20-gtk-Saphire theme):
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/pcb-gtk.png
Bill
