X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <53DE374D.7000502@estechnical.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:21:17 +0100 From: Ed Simmons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] How it may work some day... References: <1407070732 DOT 933 DOT 20 DOT camel AT AMD64X2> In-Reply-To: <1407070732.933.20.camel@AMD64X2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-As: ed AT estechnical DOT co DOT uk X-Extend-Src: mailout Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hi Stefan, On 03/08/2014 13:58, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Yesterday I wrote some minimal description of the intended behaviour of > my gschem clone, see > > http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en > > In first line this is for myself -- to motivate me to continue the > cleanup process and to ensure that my cleanups will not change the > intended behaviour... > > Recently someone pointed me to one of these commercial Web-based editors > -- this one is from Digikey called SchemeIt, see link at bottom of my > page. I can remember I have tested a similar tool about one year ago for > a few seconds -- looked not really bad. Some people say that this kind > of Web-based tools is the future -- is someone really using it? > > And schematics and PCB layout on smartphone and tablets -- I can > remember that some people said that that is the future. I still can not > really imagine how this should work, and I have not seen such Apps yet. > Is someone using it, and is it really the future? Or is someone of you > already working on such an App? > > I will not be picking up a tablet for design work any time soon... when people say 'this is the future' I think they are forgetting about all the trappings of schematic capture and design. Where are we supposed to put the 300+pg datasheets on our tablets? Is it really going to be faster or better to have the tablet involved? I don't think it'll ever surpass the ease of use of a desktop, especially with multi-head display. Just my 2c. Ed