On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:36 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 12:20 -0800, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > > Here's one of each. :) > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ > > Hi, > > Have you ever looked at the GL branch of PCB (my repository here: > > git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git > git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours > > configure with --enable-gl > > (Build). > > Does the GL rendering work on MacOS-X? > > I know its cheating to pass off the rendering of a not-yet merged branch > as a representative screen-shot, but I suspect if you use it, plus my > dark colour scheme, (and perhaps switch the solder-mask on?) the > rendering of that board will look awesome. I can send the colour scheme > if you want. > > I personally think gschem looks better (in screen-shots at lest) with a > light background. I would zoom in a little more - avoiding the > dead-space in the top right corner - or zoom out to show the whole page. > > Sometimes I find the component chooser or attribute editor (with an > interesting component selected in either) adds some feel for what the > program looks like in operation. > > Regarding both screen-shots - if you set the GTK theme on your box to > better match the native OS-X look and feel, that would also make the > programs come across better.
Hints here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080309171359879 and the "gnome-themes-glossy-p" theme: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/wordpress_new/wordpress/?p=5 Presentation is everything, we might be writing free - and open source software, but we still have to _sell_ it. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
