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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:20:57 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was:
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On 10/26/2012 10:13 PM, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>> On 10/26/2012 09:47 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>> an ugly bug-prone kludge if pasted atop gschem's ancient foundation.
>>>
>>> Please try to use less emotionally charged terms in the future.
>>
>>  Yeah really.  Gschem's foundation can't be THAT "ancient", if it's
>> using modern GTK stuff.  And I have to say, as someone who uses it most
>> every day, the thing works great.
> 
> Its integration with gtk is not comfortable. It does work great as is, but trying to torque it into something more modern makes little sense. Another problem is that the Guile scripting is pasted on rather than truly built in, so it hasn't been very effective.

  Understood.  Is it possible to "rework" the GTK integration such that
it's more "natural" for a GTK app?  I mean, I realize that it's NOT a
GTK app, but still...at least for the GTK HID.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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