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> * available as native applications on major platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, *nix/BSD, with standard installers for those systems (.exe, .dmg, .tgz)
> * uses native widget set $ non-native widgets just look inconsistent and ugly, IMHO.

This is a total non-starter unless you (or someone else) can find a
developer for those platforms and convince them to do a full port.
This is less of a problem for pcb, which has hid, but for the other
tools it's a big project.

> > * the notion of "packages", a container format for all information on 
> > a component. E.g. symbol(s), footprint(s), value(s), spice model, 3D 
> > models, notes, data sheets, ...
> 
> Actually, that's one of the things about Eagle I really dislike.  I
> like separation between footprints and symbols.

I think we have too much separation now, though.  We need some way of
linking the two other than "put pin numbers in symbols".