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On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, myken wrote:

> Wow, if all the effort used in this debate would have been converted into 
> source code, we would have a killer application by now.

True. Was exactly my thought when I started my fork and when I resumed 
active development of it this summer.

>
> Personally I think the opinions are not that far apart (English is not my 
> native language so I could be mistaken).
> There are two workable options:
> 1. Add an orange button to the gschem/pcb menu structure to start the orange 
> project manager to help navigate between the application that make gEDA and 
> beyond.
> 2. Write a lot of documentation explaining how to use the gEDA toolkit as an 
> expert.
>
> If we maintain the design philosophy that every application does one thing and 
> does it very well, the project manager tool should do the navigation part very 
> well ;-)

As a toolkit-centric gschem user I fully agree with these.

Regards,

Igor2