On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 00:44 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564716&cid=31289534 > > Let me be the first to apologize. :-) Although, a couple people have > posted that gEDA's documentation lacks in places. > > Any volunteers for: "Make a beginners interface that looks Eagle-ish".
Just don't make it _feel_ like Eagle.. I've tried it, and hated it! All those people I've met who use Eagle use it for the parts-library, and when questioned - have admitted that the UI is quirky. Perhaps someone pro-active could clone the Arduino design in gEDA format? I wonder if a question we forgot to ask is simply "are these people using Linux"? I know gEDA can and does work on Windows, but we don't really target that user-base, and don't expend much effort testing and ironing out the Win32 bugs. I'm not a big fan of systems which need lots of documentation to get started. It is important for turning new users into power-users, but lets face it, no-one is going to read through much more than a couple of pages before giving up if they can't see an end in sight. More marketing on our part would perhaps help - show people pictures or videos of designs and schematics in progress, show them what the tools _can_ achieve - and it might generate interest. I know it is different, but when looking for CFD/FEA software to solve a problem, I've mostly been interested to see examples of what kind of problem the software can solve - visually. Yes, I could read the 100 page manual - but that comes after I've got a decent feel for the fact that the software can do what I want. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user