Hi all, > -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of > kai-martin knaak > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:36 PM > To: geda-u...@seul.org > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request > > Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > The user base of brlCAD is marginal > >> and will probably shrink even more, as more intuitive open > source CAD > >> applications will become a viable alternative. > >> > > > > That may be true, but I am not really happy with the wording. > > Some kids may be tempted to do something like sed -i -e > > 's/brlCAD/gEDA-PCB/' > > Well, the usability of geda-PCB is not that far off-road. > It is on par, or better than its main competitors kicad and > eagle (in my humble opinion). > That said, it is certainly true that geda looses potential > users because of the command line thing. It makes the newbie > expect the need for much more command line magic down the line. > In reality, you just issue simple commands a few times per > project. And you can avoid even these with xgsch2pcb or pcb-pull. > > These two work-flows really should be advertised more -- In > the documentation, tutorial and in the articles in wikipedia. > > ---<)kaimartin(>--- > -- > Kai-Martin Knaak > Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 >
Avoiding the command line won't help you on the gschem --> simulation work flow. Loosing potential users due to a command like thing is probably something a lot of *nix apps and tools suffer from. I can't help people who will not try to learn what is neccesary, or do whatever it takes, to solve their *own* problems. Sad, but true. IMHO there is no true hacker fu in them. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user