On Monday 10 January 2005 10:15 pm, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > I reached the conclusion that for PCB to survive in the long term a > GUI based on a more modern widget set then the Athena widets will > probably be required. This is in order to attract new developers to > have an interest in improving and expanding the GUI. Doing a little > research and following similar discussions on the GTK list I think > baseing a layout program on the GnomeCanvas would be fairly > straightforward and should give good performance. I have had plans for > a while now to write a simple "proof of concept" GUI for PCB based on > this but it seems like you would disagree that this is the right > path. So my question is to you (and others), you you think there is a > need for a new GUI and what widget set should it be based on in that > case (besides GTK+ and the Gnome widgets) ?
Marvin Dickens Wrote: >QT is a good choice for this because for the most >part, it write once and compile anywhere. Neither of those lend themselves to running on Windows. While we here might not like the idea of Windows, it is a requirement of the real world. Last week I was told at work "We are a windows shop here, use windows programs." They did not want me to use DOS XCOPY to copy stuff to their network drive, in their mind that screws up their network. :-( The wxWidget set is well supported, and cross platform, also most of the work is already done for us by looking at KICAD. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/ http://www.wxdigets.com/
