On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:11:41 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote:
> > Anyway, I hope to have something anybody interested can evaluate before > > too many more weeks and in the meantime, here's a current screenshot > > (using the H20-gtk-Saphire theme): > > > > http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/pcb-gtk.png > > You are godlike! Thanks for this great work! Well, I'm going to go tell my friends! > My only request: Please comment the code as much as you can so that > us mortals can go in there and make little tweaks. I look forward to > finally going in to PCB and fixing all the little things which annoy > me! I haven't been able to do that so far because I found the X11 > stuff so daunting. OK, if I disappoint, make sure and tell me and I'll go back in for another try. > BTW: I remain in favor of GTK as the "quasi-official" gEDA GUI > toolkit if only because it is already entrenched with gEDA/gaf, and > managing the hell of proliferating libraries is a very important > for usablilty. This is particularly important for newbies who can't > be expected to install and manage two different GUI libraries. (They > can barely handle one library already -- think about all the confusion > we would face if two libraries were used!!!!) I've always liked Gtk because it provides a porting layer from the ground up starting with glib. In my other projects I've been able to avoid auto build tools and simply use pkg-config in makefiles... although this could open another discussion which I'll bow out of right now. Bill -------- http://gkrellm.net
