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On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:39:21PM -0400, Paul Tan (pt75234 AT aol DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2016, 09:50:00 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > I think the point is correct.... More developers are needed to port gschem
> > to GTK3. I might guess that GTK2 has another 5-10 years of being readily
> > available though... so I'm not swayed heavily by the argument that we
> > imminently need to do it. (Just start thinking about it perhaps).
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 May 2016, 10:00:43 -0600, John Doty wrote:
> > A clean ground-up redesign of gschem, using the same file format, but
> > with a modern UI, would be welcome. Encumbering the old, quirky, but
> > productive UI with new features is not.
> 
> Sounds like a good case to port gEDA to QT5 (instead of GTK3.0).
> Limited spare time accumulated during 5-10 years may be good 
> enough to tempt someone to take up the challenge, including
> me.

Well, QT is not usable from C. So you have to rewrite in another language, 
C++ or some interpreted language, or something that runs in a browser
now that the OS is the web browser for most people (ducks for cover).

> 
> I came across an interesting posting on Youtube by someone whose 
> team had successfully ported their app to QT:
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0
>   Gtk to Qt - a strange journey [linux.conf.au 2014] 
>   
> I have played around with some of the QT5 demo examples, it looks
> quite promising to be a good replacement for GTK3.

Personnally I decided deliberately to use GTK for my own projects a long
time ago because I could not stand Qt (and its associated tool, called
MOC if I remember correctly).

    Gabriel

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