Hi Subin, On Jan 6, 10:43 pm, "Subin Mathew" <subin.a.mat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The point you were saying > A new fully integrated UI, may be a cross > platform one, can give GEDA a new lease of life. Something like > KICAD's UI. As of now, it is still a hackers' toy - not something you > would call production standard. Many may disagree with me on this, but > most users wont even try a design tool that requires them to touch the > command prompt. That's a shame considering how good the rest of GEDA is. > is nice, BUT is it possible? Why not? They created Free OS, free browsers, free media frameworks, free everything. How hard is it going to be to develop a new UI for an already well developed app stack? Remember that even in Kerala, more than enough talent is available to custom modify or develop software to meet our requirements (eg: SMC). Anyone with enough experience in GEDA and some toolkit should be able to do it (provided they have time). On the other hand, if you dont want to get your hands dirty, simply outsource the job. With small contributions from the user community, there should be enough resources to employ an IT firm to do that job (hmm, I need to ponder this!). There are a lot of firms that has the ability and willingness to do so. At this point, that seems much easier than changing the quality of education. That would require changing the mindset of an entire generation of students and teaching staff. I am not against that idea- but in practise, thats harder. Heck! I can't even get them to try Firefox- how do I convince them to use GEDA? I try my best to popularize free s/w too. But nobody cares! All they care about is whether it is easy to use. Tell them about command prompt, and all your efforts are in vain. I am not understating work of educators like Ranjith sir or David sir, but ask them how many people take genuine interest in their ideas and take over their work where they leave off. That's why, a polished UI for these apps would help. You have to admit- there are a lot of companies that sell crappy s/w with shiny UIs. Even SPICE apps that we use at college are generations behind GNUCAP etc- but they have simple UIs. Please do not take this as a deliberate criticism. I cherish work done by people like you and David sir. I always look up to them to provide guidance in my efforts. Also, I really like the idea of standardization. Anyway, I would like to know how much support I would get if I propose such a dev (outsourcing at the worst). Regards, Gokul Das --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
