X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_483E301A-C80A-494E-B068-F3DEA1FD8931"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: gschem annoyances X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 2.5.2 From: John Doty In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:00:43 -0600 Message-Id: References: <572622FE DOT 9050705 AT gmail DOT com> <57279961 DOT 9010802 AT gmail DOT com> <20160505205109 DOT 2fa7b189f4210b3c0d7a8a4b AT gmail DOT com> <57320DDA DOT 4050107 AT gmail DOT com> <20160510191203 DOT d5dccf7d7353d0a550b97a1e AT gmail DOT com> <57322CA3 DOT 3010808 AT gmail DOT com> <915F1EED-B30B-43AF-ABB0-949F0A754918 AT sbcglobal DOT net> <7BAA31F3-9E00-4372-AB4A-7739D3FD2AA0 AT noqsi DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_483E301A-C80A-494E-B068-F3DEA1FD8931 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_C1D79802-CB08-40F6-8814-DEE977C13DF2" --Apple-Mail=_C1D79802-CB08-40F6-8814-DEE977C13DF2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On May 12, 2016, at 2:50 AM, Peter Clifton = (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = wrote: > I think the point is correct.... More developers are needed to port = gschem to GTK3. I might guess that GTK2 has another 5-10 years of being = readily available though... so I'm not swayed heavily by the argument = that we imminently need to do it. (Just start thinking about it = perhaps). I heard the same thing about Unix in the 1980=92s. A dinosaur, soon to = be replaced. A clean ground-up redesign of gschem, using the same file format, but = with a modern UI, would be welcome. Encumbering the old, quirky, but = productive UI with new =93features=94 is not. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_C1D79802-CB08-40F6-8814-DEE977C13DF2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252

On May 12, 2016, at 2:50 AM, Peter = Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT co= m) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> = wrote:

I think the point is correct.... More = developers are needed to port gschem to GTK3. I might guess that GTK2 = has another 5-10 years of being readily available though... so I'm not = swayed heavily by the argument that we imminently need to do it. (Just = start thinking about it = perhaps).

I heard the same thing = about Unix in the 1980=92s. A dinosaur, soon to be = replaced.

A clean ground-up redesign of gschem, using = the same file format, but with a modern UI, would be welcome. = Encumbering the old, quirky, but productive UI with new =93features=94 = is not.

John Doty Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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