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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:10:41 +0200
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On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 22:36 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> Stefan Salewski writes:
[...]
> 
> Well, it may take some time until I get to PCB, let alone gerbv -- one
> thing at a time!
Of course -- indeed I hope someone other than you may do it -- it should
not need really programming skills. And it is not so difficult when
there exist some well looking examples. I myself am absolutely not an
artist -- but maybe other gEDA users are. I looked at the inkscape icons
long time ago, they have shadows to look nice. It may even be necessary
to test the final icons with different color schemes and different OS --
I am not sure.
[...]
> Transitioning to GTK+ 3.x will be a huge hassle.  It really is quite
> hostile to multi-key keybindings, for example...
>
That is really sad. My personal view is, that we do not need multi-key
keybindings for EDA tools, because the set of actions is limited, and
most people do not like it. I am using VIM and GVIM for one year now --
it uses multi-key keybindings much, it is OK for me, and it is justified
because of the large set of available actions. Of course people
customize to gschems multi-key interface may want very strongly to keep
it.

Best wishes,

Stefan Salewski