On 10/09/2010 12:58 AM, dave m wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently started using KiCad for a project I'm working on at home. > Overall I'm quite impressed with the current status of the software, > and as far as I know it's the best open-source EDA package available. > I tried gEDA briefly and found it limited and not very intuitive.
Yes, even though its written in C? > > I've been using Altium Designer at work for a few years now so I've > come to appreciate it's MANY features. I'm certainly biased towards > their way of doing things. > > It's unlikely that an open source project will be able to compete with > commercial software, but I think KiCad has a lot of potential even > though it has a lot of room for improvement. > > I'm not much of a developer-- I'm okay with C but complex C++ stuff is > beyond me. I doubt I can contribute any patches but I'd really like > to help improve KiCad. > > How else can I help? You might have guessed that I have a lot of > ideas about how the UI "should" work, but if that's not up for debate > then I don't want to spam the list. We are essentially rewriting eeschema very soon. Try and read the entire thread called "exploiting human readability", and creating a UI document. Since we are brainstorming, there are no barriers, and no commitments. Focus on the UI, we have not even started thinking about that. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
