> -----Original Message----- > > The future is now, and an opengl card is cheap (even in my > country). I really have no words when I see the 3d rendering > of a board in the Kicad, and sometimes that is really usefull. > gEDA and PCB are professional tools and I really dont think > that a pre-requisite to them is to run on old machines. MHO, > of course.
The problem is that GTK and Qt are over-complicated and badly designed. GTK also has too many dependencies. GTK redraws slowly even on my 1.6GHz Athlon (though I haven't tried pcb). In spite of these problems they're a good way to tap into the new functions in X below them. Which is considered most important is up to pcb developers.
