Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

2009-01-03 Thread der Mouse
- Closed source OS rubs some folks the wrong way - even when they provide free development tools documentation for coding on top of the OS, not having access to the guts is annoying. It actually can be anywhere from irrelevant to intolerable, depending on what you're trying to do. For me,

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.4.3-20081231 released!

2009-01-03 Thread Tamas Szabo
Do you have installed the -dev packages (libgtk2.0-dev)? /sza2 vsrk sarma wrote: I tried to install on my nx6115 laptop AMD64 loaded with Ubuntu 8.10. It throws up following error: checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for GTK24... no configure: error:

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.4.3-20081231 released!

2009-01-03 Thread vsrk sarma
It was not installed after installing libgtk2.0-dev, installation completed without errors. Thanks a lot. On 1/3/09, Tamas Szabo [1]sza2k...@freemail.hu wrote: Do you have installed the -dev packages (libgtk2.0-dev)? /sza2 vsrk sarma wrote: I tried to install

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

2009-01-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 02:48 -0500, der Mouse wrote: - Closed source OS rubs some folks the wrong way - even when they provide free development tools documentation for coding on top of the OS, not having access to the guts is annoying. It actually can be anywhere from irrelevant to

Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

2009-01-03 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
I am very much an open-source proponent. As I mentioned in my previous post, I run Gentoo Linux on my Apple MacBook Pro. Linux runs very fast and problem free on it, and the graphic programs like gEDA are especially awesome on its 1920 x 1200 screen resolution. Its true that

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread DJ Delorie
Can't that be user defined. I worry about getting users into the habbit of using ctrl-c which is supposed to kill command line processes. Ctrl-C is the standard copy command, most GUI standards require it be implemented as such. ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread DJ Delorie
Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR]; The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. It's only true and relevent when an application is running inder the pervue of the termio subsystem,

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread evan foss
On 1/3/09, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR]; The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. It's only true and relevent when an application

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread Kipton Moravec
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:13 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR]; The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. It's only true and relevent when an

Re: gEDA-user: Wish list for gschem

2009-01-03 Thread der Mouse
Actually, no; ^C per se is not supposed to do anything. It just happens to be probably the commonest setting of c_cc[VINTR]; [...] The above is *not* true (or even relevent) in a GUI environment. I think it actually is, in the context of the text that was a reply to. You deleted that; the