My 2 cents... I'm new to emc. I chose emc for my lathe after using mach for my mill, mainly for the threading support, but also because it was open source. I was very impressed with the internal architecture of emc, and how easy it was to build and a configure a system with components, pins and links (I'm a programmer). I was expecting the UI to be same, being able to build the UI by add the visual components that I needed. Unfortunately, the emc UI isn't there yet. I'd love to see a mach like interface, where a complete UI can be built by dragging and dropping components, and linking them with script. Is this a lot of work? Probably, but once the framework is designed and implemented, anyone can add components. I also like the idea of using an emrsh like layer in the UI - I use X over the network, so I can code inside the house, not in my cold workshop, but the updates, especially the 3D, are terribly slow. At the moment I'm working on a visual pendant configuring application (configure any USB HID device to be a pendant in emc) so I can use my home made pendant, and also to learn Qt. After that I was looking at a visual Hal configuring application, so I can test out more of Qt's features. I'm definitely interested in contributing if you need help. Frank
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