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> Agreed. Simplicity is what is needed. Adding features to a simple tool does not make it easier to use.

I agree. But I think there is some reason adding few buttons.
Sometimes it is just way to do the task easiest way.
>
>> Tools not suitable for newbies never see experienced people, because these people did a different choice long before they reached such a state of knowledge.

OK. I'm more software guy. I tried Eagle, newer got the led blinker board
to print out. Then I tried gEDA and learned the hard way to be efficient.

>
> What you want is simple, regular tools. Every unnecessary feature puts a cognitive burden on the user. It’s nonlinear: two features are more than twice the burden of one.

Yes. Simplicity is virtue. So far there has been talk about make PCB,
simulate this or print that. How inconvenient.

How about something like this:

Allow from .gschembuttonsdefinitionfile or gafrc to define guile
function which would equivalently do T U replace all this page diagonal.
Or run make doc. Let CTRL-ALT-Shift-number execute that button. Both
in my workflow are repeating actions.

If there isn't such definitions then there are no buttons.

Soon there would be some functions in gedasymbols. Evolution would
gather the good parts and bad would be forgotten. Some might even get
to gschem tree to be easily enabled. By default there would be the standard
tool.

This just needs good interface. And developer time to become real.

Hannu Vuolasaho