-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2010 12:35 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> We are essentially rewriting eeschema very soon. > > Any plans going metric on the way? I know it doesn't actuallu matter
I second that. Imperial is so last millennium. > between platforms. On wx(GTK) the layout with labels and textboxes is > never correct (just look at KiCad on wxGTK vs Windows), but on Qt it's > completely non issue. Platform nativenes issue was solved some time ago, > so Qt ought to be as native as wxWidgets. I know the great deal of > investment for wxWidgets, but sometimes one has to leave old behind. > Nokia pushing Qt seems to be a good thing as license was relaxed > LGPL/GPL/commercial and development is ongoing. Qucs and FreeCAD would > combine with KiCad more seamlessly... > I'm find the idea of going QT interesting, but I have to ask the question: "Isn't QT slower?". It may be just me, but I get the feeling that wxGTK apps are the most responsive on my F13 box. > Just to make it clear, I don't want to start any war about which tookit > is the best or KDE/Gnome/OSX/Win/FLTK/E17... usability battle, just some > thinking about which toolkit is the best for KiCad and sustainable and > saving developer time. Especially the graphics, if the problem is > already solved why it has to be solved again with minor differences? It > seems that the world is full of unsolved problems, but those who can and > will solve them are a scarce resource. Let's spend that recource > meaningfully. I use Gnome on Ubuntu Linux, but vastly prefer Qt as a > tool. Qt-clearlooks style. > I never questioned kicad's decision to use wxWidgets. I do think, however, of the 3d-viewer crashing on non-nvidia cards or nvidia cards with nouveau. I can reproduce it 100%. Are these and similar sort of issues common with wx? Would it be easier to switch to a different GUI system instead of patching up wx? If the answer to the last two questions is yes, then count me in on the effort. Alright, I admit, being a KDE user, I'm very biased towards QT, so someone wiser should question my reasoning. Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMsdJ8AAoJEL0kPHNPXJJK67cQAJJfRyhOHdTKNGJnKCnzvK+Y WYT1L6RpDFGzMXCxTmfKKkAGzsolmepOHtEPHohaN5Ps2ASmLpwXT/z6bWZ/aYow bamd/IpgE+N7inOjyZVDtQwU/wVAiKaKNJx2XjKtt24qJVdrUj24An2Q0tmY1sji ozyHQ1KFep5/6QmRsdudTRbbV5CrW4Ct4lMft7oSWM+F4Tq9dsbpwzKuWfO7N9Y4 k/+1zQIYonDcQdfyU1JkRh6iFgCMOB14lATe/rVvB3aaHmaEY3GpSiOCqEomfNZ9 oD/1YY4VxmRoQQqypFFU79dRfAyqvd4KHwXDAhsgrn1haBEhct2Tl/qHiFP9YXPE rN6990B/Gps6wANwDKucnJXAy5A/ZZv5IVIth6EheWlbV+RIfZQZj0oXZ9qVb4d2 VvNi2/WzaNZLK3zyPjTWf9nPsQ9ODVeDt9sQs7uWgccOLymGtnO3Xj+jmP+TP6sQ cUOPkHrJx45B3t8EQkD7oUxFSlPqH/5KWNWwpANyA2eB99PHnxKyTVU2hEGXFKu9 8A5MZFa778T1c3JLgeugo2CjOlIeHORs39il2gafi6dLBczmhTUASxAX0EReaE46 iM3m1qlOOCj0cpSyS0K2RTIPw1SwR6x2HrxAHLv04bV+ZEGTnTnPpnZt3Lg1irMO cy2u2Zo3/VCgb8FSkrJW =Vw2Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
