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On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>> - Here is a set of attributes that the user will need a dialog to configure
>> (btw, look at the dialogs in PCB for the export HID's.  Those are not hard
>> coded in the GTK or Lesstif HID's but are created on the fly).
>> - Here is what should be run when the user clicks "simulate" or "send to
>> pcb" or whatever.
>
> I am in favore of this as long as these buttons are not actually in
> the tools but instead in an added program to the suite that acts as a
> project guide/manager or flow guide for new users.

Please refer to:

xgsch2pcb for the gschem->pcb workflow

easyspice for gschem->simulation

They are both available from Debian repositories as well (which suggests 
they are not bitrotten).

I can't judge how useful these tools are as I'm a console junkie living on 
Makefiles. I also like that gschem and pcb are decoupled. However, I used 
xgsch2pcb in a series of lectures I gave about 8 years ago. My students 
were engineering students, all windows users. It did work, but I think 
they considered "the lack of complete integration" a bug, not a feature.

I recall xgsch2pcb required dbus support in both gschem and pcb.

Regards,

Igor2