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On Thu, 12 May 2016, 09:50:00 +0100, Peter Clifton 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).


On Thu, 12 May 2016, 10:00:43 -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 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 features is not.

Sounds like a good case to port gEDA to QT5 (instead of GTK3.0).
Limited spare time accumulated during 5-10 years may be good 
enough to tempt someone to take up the challenge, including
me.

I came across an interesting posting on Youtube by someone whose 
team had successfully ported their app to QT:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0
  Gtk to Qt - a strange journey [linux.conf.au 2014] 
  
I have played around with some of the QT5 demo examples, it looks
quite promising to be a good replacement for GTK3.

Paul Tan