X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Envelope-From: paubert AT iram DOT es Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:10:37 +0200 From: "Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: "Paul Tan (pt75234 AT aol DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: gschem annoyances Message-ID: <20160513081037.GA23474@visitor2.iram.es> References: <154a7fb8d8c-2a04-17506 AT webprd-a31 DOT mail DOT aol DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <154a7fb8d8c-2a04-17506@webprd-a31.mail.aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spamina-Bogosity: Unsure X-Spamina-Spam-Score: -0.2 (/) X-Spamina-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-0.2 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4818] 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: linux.conf.au] 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 On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:39:21PM -0400, Paul Tan (pt75234 AT aol DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > 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. Well, QT is not usable from C. So you have to rewrite in another language, C++ or some interpreted language, or something that runs in a browser now that the OS is the web browser for most people (ducks for cover). > > 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. Personnally I decided deliberately to use GTK for my own projects a long time ago because I could not stand Qt (and its associated tool, called MOC if I remember correctly). Gabriel